• Question: If you break your arm or leg, and it gets better... Will it still be sore from when you broke your leg/arm?! (Cuz my mum broke her leg 5 years ago, and she says that it is still sore sumtimes.)

    Asked by gilly to Pete, Rebecca, SallyB, Sally, Sian on 23 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Sally Barber

      Sally Barber answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      Some bone breaks can lead to arthritis in joints. This can be sore and pain often come on when the weather is cold. You can help to reduce the pain in arthritic joints by doing simple non-weight bearing exercises. If your mum feels pain in her knee for example she can sit on a chair and gently kick her leg out infront of her about 15 times. If she continues to do this a couple of times a week this should help to reduce the pain. I broke my thumb playing rounders when I was 15 and it sometimes get sore in cold weather.

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      Peter Styring answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      I broke by thumb about 5 years ago and it was sore for about 3 years! Not painful, just uncomfortable. I did a lot of physio on it and now it’s fine. I dislocated it again about 3 months ago and that hurt more than the break. As a coach once said, pain is weakness leaving the body!

    • Photo: Sally Fenton

      Sally Fenton answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      When you have broken a bone it is more fragile and easier to break a second time. If you have fractured a bone (this is like a split and it does not break all the way through)…then it never heals properly and it will always be a bit weaker and may get sore if you do something to hurt it. I fractured my collar bone and now sometimes it still hurts me if I do to much at the gym or I fall on it.

    • Photo: Rebecca Randell

      Rebecca Randell answered on 23 Jun 2010:

      I’m not an expert on this but i think that in some people it would still hurt as the bone has been damaged and may still be repairing slowly.

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