Just thinking about it is terrifying.
When leaving the house, Brother Kun was in a bit of a hurry and also feeling fearful.
He accidentally tripped over the threshold cable.
Staggering, he almost fell spectacularly.
Fortunately, he managed to steady himself against the wall.
"Brother Kun, are you alright?"
Two younger gang members quickly came up to support him.
"Damn it, two blockheads like dumb pigs, don't even know how to support properly."
Brother Kun couldn't help but curse harshly.
Thankfully, he didn't fall, otherwise the arm that had just been reattached might have dislocated again.
Watching the trio leave, everyone else smiled slyly.
"Serves you right for scaring me!"
The female nurse yelled at the departing backs of the trio.
It appeared that their threats to block her on the way home from work had indeed frightened her.
As the three of them left, another patient came in.
This patient's mouth was twisted in a bizarre shape, looking extremely strange.
It resembled a facial deformity caused by child paralysis.
However, he seemed to walk normally.
Generally speaking, child paralysis is extremely harmful and can cause deformities in multiple parts of the body.
Especially hands, feet, spine, etc.
"What's wrong with him?"
The family member accompanying him rushed to show the X-ray to Zhou Can, explaining,
"My brother was laughing, and suddenly his jaw turned . We took an X-ray, and they said it is a submandibular joint dislocation."
Zhou Can took the X-ray for a close examination.
A family member asked, "Doctor, what part is the submandibular joint? Is it the chin?"
He had been in the manual reduction room for eight days, but this was the first time he encountered a patient with a dislocated jaw.
People often joke, "Laugh with too much pride, and you might laugh your jaw off."
Actually, this is true.
The submandibular joint is one of the most complex joints in the body.
Sometimes laughing too loudly, or yawning, or opening your mouth too wide when eating, like trying to bite off half an apple at once, are actually very dangerous behaviors.
They could accidentally lead to jaw dislocation.
So, it's best to laugh modestly; too much pride might cause your jaw to dislocate.
"Dr. Fu, please take a look!"
Zhou Can hadn't done or seen any reduction for this type of patient, so naturally, he did not dare to proceed carelessly.
He had become quite familiar with Doctor Fu now.
For dislocations he didn't understand, he didn't even need to explain, and Dr. Fu would teach him.
After checking the X-rays, Dr. Fu pointed out two areas, "Look here, and here is the problem. Normally, the submandibular joint should look ."
He turned around and operated for a moment, and an image of a normal submandibular joint appeared on the dedicated screen.
Zhou Can, closely comparing, felt more confident.
However, the joint's pouch is near the ear area, and he would need Dr. Fu to teach him the exact manipulation.
"This type of joint reduction only requires supporting the chin and the other hand to find the right bone position of the joint. A simple lift upwards will do."
Dr. Fu taught while gently touching the patient's side facial joint pouch with his hand.
As soon as he touched it, the patient cried out in pain.
"Please bear with it a little, we need to find the dislocated point first, then we can accurately realign it. If it can't be manually repositioned, surgical intervention will be required, which is quite costly. At least a week's hospitalization."
Dr. Fu wasn't just scaring the patient; these are indeed the treatment principles of the hospital.
Currently, the manual reduction is definitely the most cost-effective, time-saving, and least harmful treatment method.
It's also the first choice of treatment for various fractures and joint dislocations.
If manual reduction isn't suitable, then there's no choice.
Moreover, some patients are exceptionally delicate and extremely distrustful of doctors.
These patients' family members are usually more troublesome.
Asking all sorts of questions, as if they want a thorough investigation of the doctor's ancestry.
Dealing with such patients, even doctors are human and have emotions.
Sorry, perhaps you should check if there are any hospital beds available! If there's a bed, we can arrange for inpatient surgery. If not, you'll have to wait.