Saturday, July 5, 2008

Austin's elbow x-ray

Here is the x ray of his elbow. The break is just above the round bone in the joint from the left going up at an angle up. It's hard to see but it's the grey line. Now that isn't a beg deal, with time it will heal. The reason he needed surgery is if you will notice the bone above the break (top to bottom) bow's out instead of being straight. It's hard to tell unless you can see a normal elbow and how it should look which is what the dr. showed me to explain. Normally the bone should be straight and if you hold up a piece of paper to the bone you should see the round joint bone below, his does not cause it curves out. Hope this makes sense!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i think i got it. it is pretty hard to explain an xray without pointing at it! good job though!