Pulled elbow, no treatment

[merryberry]

DS2 has a diagnosis of 'radial head subluxation' which I think is correct given it happened when his uncle yanked him up in a game, classic cause of it.

Just settled ds2 down after A&E assessment, no xray as they say the ligament doesn't show and no point looking for any bone problems as it's this ligament injury. I was alos OK with that.

Not so OK with the consultant not manipulating it back for him, have been told to wait 48 hours and if no improvement go back in get it done there.

am too tired now to make sense of what I'm reading in google results. Has anyone else left a pulled elbow alone and it's fixed itself?

Don't know MB, but will send him Reiki tonight x

aw, sweetheart thanks dp.

and bump for morning crowd. he is still not moving it himself, and all the nhs sites talk about which kind of manipulation to do, i can't see any that say spontaneous resolution is better.

I would go straight bak. My dd2 had two of these pulled elbows - two different occasions. The first time the registrar did not do it properly and so we saw the head of A & E - he quickly manipulated it back in and it was fine. He watched dd2 for about 10 minutes to make sure all was fine and we were sent home. Dd2 was in pain and did nothing with it and cried a lot when it was not manipulated correctly the first time.

I would too possibly...only the person who sent us home WAS the head of A&E. Oh bum.

dd has had this on a few occasions,

Twice A+E staff have manipulated it, once it went back in as she played in the A+E waiting area and was fine by the time we got in to see the doc, once dp manipulated it himself.

Apparently some children have a tendency for it to happen, the last time tbh it was not clear to anyone how it happened. We were out for a walk and although dp was holding her hand he certainly wasn't pulling her, we think it was the way she twisted to look at something as he moved slight in the other direction. Once she was spinning around holding our hands iyswim.

he is moving the elbow a small amount now and letting his shoulder swing a fair bit. will watch him another day and take back on saturday if no better than that. he is playing happily, and hasn't cried from pain this am.

my bad MB, fell asleep before doing the Reiki last night, did about 7.45 this morning.

I used to work in A&E till 18 mo ago and elbows were always manipulated (successfully) . It could be possible that the treatment has changed but seems silly when a quick flick and they're right as rain

Well it finally popped itself back in at noon yesterday (he was hopping from a friend's paving stone to another for ages and I think it just jogged back in) so he had a long and uncomfortable 72 hours.

He also got a cracking bruise on his forehead where he fell on Friday and couldn't catch himself with his hands.

Heaven forfend - next time it happens I'll tell them to put it back in!

Thank you very much for your help everyone.