Damage to growth plate in broken elbow (long, sorry!)

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Does anybody have experience of DC breaking a bone and it affecting subsequent growth of bone?
DS2 broke elbow (supra-condylar fracture)on the growth plate and needed it pinned last June. He was told to avoid contact sport and any risk of rebreaking it until it was properly healed so had 6 months of staying in at playtime, no football etc, which he hated. On his last appointment in November we were told that everything looked fine but to come back in 6 months as there was a small chance of his growth in that arm being affected and the arm growing out at an angle. I've noticed today that it is starting to do this. It seems to have happened only over the past month. I will obviously have to take him back and get it looked at but I'm so worried. Does anyone know anything about this type of complication and how it's treated? Have lain awake all night worrying...

My brother broke his growth plate in his leg when he was 1 (mu sister jumped on him on the trampoline). The original doctor just want to put him in a normal cast but my mother, who is a nurse, thought otherwise and had him seen by a specialist. He was in a full body cast from ankle to armpit (in the middle of summer) for 4 months.

My DB had to do lots of physio but doing lots of sport later in life helped with the small limp he developed. He is completely normal now.

Not much help I know but I would get a second opinion as elbows are tricky things.

Thanks. I've already had a second opinion at a different hospital as we'd had so many conflicting pieces of advice in the first one. Think I'll ring up tomorrow as try to get in and see consultant. Though how long the wait will be I don't know