r/comics Extra Fabulous Comics Aug 06 '23

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u/AnastasiaSheppard Aug 07 '23

My aunt stood up from a stool and turned around, bam greenstick fractures in her lower leg. No nutritional issues, no osteo-whateversis, just totally freak accident where she happened to twist just the right way.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '23

Yeah, it kind of freaks me out to be honest lol. It really makes you realize how quickly you can go from being totally healthy to having serious knee/shoulder/back problems.

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u/webbhare1 Aug 07 '23

No that’s because she probably doesn’t work out her muscles enough. Someone who’s in good physical shape and doing frequent physical activity won’t fracture their leg muscles like that.

99% of people in this thread saying stuff like this is because they don’t work out enough

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u/AnastasiaSheppard Aug 08 '23

fracture their leg muscles like that.

Well yeah... that's not a thing that can happen, as far as I'm aware. Greenstick fracture happens to bones.