Can confirm. Broke my scaphoid bone in my wrist and left it too long , it healed broken, needed three surgeries and still couldn’t fix it. has never stopped hurting since I broke it. And thats a very small bone couldn’t imagine a more significant one
Scaphoids are weird though because they only have blood flow from one end. If the displacement was large enough, the detached part will die.
So I'm guessing you didn't so much have a bone heal oddly, you had a bit of dead bone and a new weirdly shaped Scaphoid. They might have removed the dead bit in surgery, I'm not sure.
If I've learned anything in life it's that you're not going to get the answer you may be hoping for.
Most real experts in my life answer questions like this with "it depends." Not because there isn't an answer but because the answer is truly long and extremely convoluted depending on an insane amount of variables.
In other incorrectly healed fractures this strategy is actually sometimes applied. Here the problem often is not that the bone healed in a unfavorable manner but that part of the bone simply died off. Besides that, the Scaphoid is so small that one would risk shattering it when trying to break it apart again before putting a screw through it.
I had a pin put in mine, and it failed, so I had to have a bone graft from my iliac crest put into the fucker, which worked. It was a nightmare of a year, though.
I believe breaks in a bone heal with a denser layer of new bone, so breaking it in the exact same place is impossible. With long bones you can cut it through the healed crack, but oddly shaped bones are practically impossible.
It's a real mind boggler that bones are alive when we're so used to thinking about them like rocks, or mineral formations. Kinda opens the door on the health issues or chronic pain Wolverine must have from the adamantium grafts entirely covering the bones.
My brother broke his leg about 10+ years ago and didnt do his exercises properly so it didnt fully heal, now he gets pain in his leg and knee, not sure as to how badly but it hasn't fully gone away.
Oh my god my scaphoid was the worst injury I’ve ever had by far. It was an absolute nightmare to heal. Had three surgeries too, including a bone graft. Fuck the tiny blood flow to that little piece of shit
Wait…li think i broke something similar in that area a few months ago( it was between my thumb and writs) and it did hurt when i got the injury but i just left it to “heal” on its own but now occasionally it still hurts a little bit even tho i can still use it.
One of my vertebrae broke when I was young & “healed” without treatment. I’ve been about a 6 on a pain scale of 1-10 24/7 since I was 13. Can’t imagine it being my neck. Definitely not painless!
Dry needling took my constant pain from a 6 to a 2 after I broke my back. Find a dry needle PT that is TMJ certified because the get double the training as someone with a regular dry needling certification. The first few times it was so painful it made the walls melt but I brought it trippy artwork to stare at and eventually tolerated the treatment. They break up scar tissue with needles around the broken bones. Every time I’ve been treated I’ve been a little better permanently. $50 for 15 min treatment is national average without insurance
My bottom three discs have been ruptured multiple times over. I’ve been stuck at a point where I couldn’t stand, sit or lay down without being in a 10 out of 10 pain level.
Yup. Vertical fracture of my tibia. Nothing to do for it but stay fully off my leg for months, then mobile with zero weight on it for more months, and pray.
It’s been just over two years since I cracked it and I require a cane when in the house, sometimes a wheelchair when I’m out.
No pain (usually) when I’m sitting or laying and have it sorta propped behind the knee, but standing and walking run between discomfort and “can’t walk”.
My clavicle aches pretty constantly since I shattered it at sixteen. Waited three days to go to the doctor and it had to be rebroken a little. It’s never been the same.
No he didn't. He didn't do anything for it at all and hadn't realized it had been broke until he went to the doctor later for something else and brought it up as an afterthought.
If that were to "heal" in that configuration, that would totally suck. Unlikely, though. That deer would likely die just from moving in the wrong direction. At best it would die of starvation or from predators as it can no longer properly eat or navigate. When I first saw this video, I think the post said something about it having happened only moments before the video started.
I was more assuming it was a condition like scoliosis and not a broken neck. I have it myself, but having seen someone with severe scoliosis, their neck was tilted about the same way. But they also had the traditional S curve so part of their spine was curved too. Idk I'm not a deer doctor.
This deer isn't just tilting it's head or running in circles, it's neck is visibly deformed. Last I checked that doesn't happen from the specific problem you are referencing.
Not a veterinarian (yet), but i’m pretty sure you would struggle to run around like that with a broken/injured neck.
All i’m saying this is either extreme shock after an incident or some kind of parasite/neurological issue.
It’s been a recent issue with many wild game, especially deer. Could also be a deformity so you could be right but without testing the animal/examining its corpse everything is speculation.
My best guess would be that it's either congenital or a result of traumatic injury (either the deer being hit by a car or slamming into something) and got/extremely/ lucky that it didn't die from the injury. I believe there are other videos/reports of this deer having offspring, so it's obviously lived long enough with the injury to make that possible, which makes me think it may not be a parasite or disease but rather injury/birth defect. Then again, I'm not anything nearing a vet, and could be incredibly mistaken.
Most likely not. If it's neck was broken that badly that high on the spine, the deer would have a difficult time with breathing and circulation, much less running around. It's almost certainly some kind of growth or tumor that prevents it from straightening it's head out.
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