2006-06-27 08:36:29 · 5 answers · asked by Bird 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It depends on the healing of the bones. If the bones healed incorrectly, it is possible for the arm movement to be limited. Another possibility is muscle atrophy . This occurs when certain muscles haven't been used in a while. Physical therapy and/or can correct this problem.
In either case, talk with a doctor who can give you specifics on the case in question.
2006-06-27 08:48:57 · answer #1 · answered by 1000cranes 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A similar thing happened to me when I broke my tibia. I had a full length cast which the hospital left on 2 weeks too long before replacing it for a half cast up to my knee. I left the hospital fine, but within an hour of getting home my knee seized up and wouldn't move except with total agony.
I was 14 at the time and I ended up waiting for my dad to come home so he could hold my leg absolutely solid and we slowly moved upstair to my bedroom, but every jar was utter agony. It eventually freed off over the next few days and I think it was because the knee had lost lubrication due to being in one position or had some sort of fusing going on. Since then though I've had no long term knee problems so it seems to have been a one off effect (forty years ago- old fart alert!). Just my brain has seized up. Could that be a delayed reaction?
2006-06-27 15:54:07 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
since the arm was in a cast for a while the muscles shrink ,there is a word for the muscle shrinking [from lack of use & being in the cast]... but i forget it, anyway... the musle needs to be worked on(needs theropy)... to get the streght back for it to work again... the musle was in the cast & the muscle was not use to being used for that period of time... that it got weak... so theropy helps the muscle get back to what it use to do... i think that is what has happened & should be done... but i'm not sure... but i'm sure that i am right
2006-06-27 15:50:58 · answer #3 · answered by *JL* 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It may be that as the bone healed it healed around the elbow joint making it solid and therefor immobile.
2006-06-27 15:43:29 · answer #4 · answered by chamrajnagar3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If all went OK on healing process, muscles are stiff due to lack of movement. It hurts to start moving it, because its also cold.
2006-06-27 16:27:46 · answer #5 · answered by pogonoforo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋