After patella fracture, as long as the reduction is good and the fixation is proper, go to the hospital for X-ray reexamination six weeks, three months and six months after operation. Basically, the bone has been formed six weeks after operation, through the trend of fracture line. Three months after operation, the fracture basically healed, and at this time, you can gradually walk normally. After half a year's review, the fracture healed more firmly, and the internal fixator can be taken out, but if the fracture healed badly, this time needs to be extended.
The fastest way to reduce the swelling of patella fracture is to determine the swelling degree of patella fracture according to the selected treatment method.
If you choose conservative treatment, you can raise the affected limb in the early stage, and then use an ice pack to compress it, which will help to reduce swelling. After 48 hours, cold compress can be changed to hot compress, which will continue to raise the affected limb and help to reduce swelling. If the symptoms are not relieved, you can take some drugs orally to promote swelling, as well as magic lamp physiotherapy and baking electricity, which can promote swelling.
If surgical treatment is chosen, some intravenous drugs can be selected for dehydration and swelling after operation, or the affected limb can be raised, and then the ankle joint can be extended backwards to promote venous return of lower limbs. These measures are conducive to detumescence.
3 Secondary treatment of patella fracture Some patella fractures are treated conservatively at first, which are fixed by plaster, or the patella band is lost after fixation, and then need secondary treatment. Secondary treatment basically means that fracture patients who are ineffective in conservative treatment need open reduction and internal fixation. This operation is not very difficult, and there are many fixation methods. Generally speaking, it is a fracture that is ineffective through conservative treatment. Surgery usually has a very good therapeutic effect and a very satisfactory recovery.
4 Nursing Measures for Patella Fracture After the occurrence of patella fracture, patients should be encouraged to actively contract and exercise muscles, because patella fracture may need to be braked for a period of time, whether it is conservative treatment or surgical treatment. At this time, the flexion activity of the knee joint will be affected. At this time, the active contraction and exercise of quadriceps femoris and triceps femoris can avoid muscle atrophy. Secondly, it can prevent the formation of thrombus. After this time, the strength of exercising muscles can be maintained. At this time, you can put a cotton pad under the knee joint and then actively flex the knee joint. Then, the knee joint can be flexed by sitting and exercising when lying flat, thus restoring the function of the knee joint. At the same time, we should pay attention to eating some high-protein and nutritious foods to promote the healing of fractures. After the pain of fracture is relieved, patients can be encouraged to walk on crutches properly. Standing is beneficial to venous reflux, preventing thrombosis of lower limbs, and it is also beneficial to early functional rehabilitation of knee joint after standing.