Healing fracture

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Back story ...
My DD (5) fractured her tibia just under her knee 4 weeks ago. We were seen in the walk in centre (told it was a sprain even though they had xrayed her) then the hospital (confirmed fracture from same X-ray as walk in centre). She had a back slab put on for 3 weeks and we went last Friday to the fracture clinic and they removed it because she could walk on it with the back slab on. They didn't X-ray it (in hindsight I should have questioned this at the time but my head is all over the place at the minute). Fast forward to today. She is still unable to walk properly on it and is limping, she says it doesn't hurt and that she is walking normally (Myself, her dad, family members & the teachers at school have all noticed it's not quite right).

Do I contact the fracture clinic and get them to see her again or just phone the doctors and get them to sort it?

Has anyone else been in this situation and it has resolved itself?

I think I would start by phoning the fracture clinic and ask what they suggest.

Our hospital has a limping child clinic.

Not a dissimilar situation - my daughter broke her foot. Claimed at A&E that it didn't hurt so they didn't X ray it. A few days later she was still limping but didn't complain it hurt and she kept jumping off things as normal.

We went to the limping child clinic who said that she wasn't really weight bearing (when she jumped, she would land putting the weight on the other foot). They x-rayed and found it was broken. Since she was still jumping off things and not complaining of pain they didn't put a cast or splint on it and told us just to keep her in supportive footwear. Foot bones are still quite soft at that age. It healed well and she hasn't had any problems since.

I've never heard of a limping child clinic but it sounds like such a good idea :)

I've phoned fracture clinic back today and the lady I spoke to said she would speak to the consultant and get back to me. So hopefully they'll get back to me today or tomorrow 🤞🏻