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Anyone here into crippled trans guys? I’m just trying to feel sexy lol.
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Behold!!!! Da Rat Man!!!!
Another Where we find Strength profile!!!!
(I should really stick these in the masterpost)
Sorry this looks rough. I drew it early in da morning when I wished I was sleeping.
Hope ya like him!
The LORD bless you!!!!
Proverbs 15:7
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Femurs are pretty strong, but if the crate is heavy enough, your character could sustain anything from a hairline fracture to a complete fracture with any degree of displacement. You’re probably less likely to see a compound fracture (with the bone sticking out of the skin) because this scenario involves a crush injury.
Walking on the fracture would certainly exacerbate it and may displace the bone, grind the ends of the bone against each other and cause more damage, and damage the surrounding soft tissues.
The best thing your character’s team can do for them before going to a hospital is splinting the leg. Pad the leg then find a long, rigid piece of material like a branch or board and place it under the leg, avoiding any places where bone protrudes through or bulges under the skin. Tie a bandage or something similar around the joints above and below the fracture. Make sure the bandages aren’t too tight or else circulation could be cut off.
Happy whumping!
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Discworld idea: An Igor with access to a 3d printer. Even if the printed goods are not to be able to be applied surgically, imagine the splint possibilities if you’re not too attached to the traditional humanoid form.
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My new leg splints! This is with two pairs of socks on haha
They are super comfy and fit great!
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An AMAZING Instagram follower got me the night/bed splints I need for my feet off my Amazon wish list YAY!!!! I can’t get custom ones while im here in the hospital and the ones they have are very wide/big so this is Amazing news! Feel so so grateful!
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i’m going to shill again because i was talking about my splints and it got me thinking about how life-changing they were. if you have hypermobile joints or experience a lot of finger/palm pain after typing, playing video games, assembling something small (like lego/models), etc i cannot recommend enough you look into swan neck splints and lateral support splints!
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they’re literally just rings. thats it! completely unobtrusive, and they can get pretty decorative (see the right), but they support your joints and prevent them from bending in directions they’re not supposed to that cause pain and sometimes damage. i prefer individual swans because they’re easier to fit than the joined kind, but i cannot emphasize enough how much these transformed my life overnight. on my average day i wear ten of these across my knuckles the entire time im at the computer (for work, relaxation, or writing). i used to be in so much pain and need a physio to work out the knots in my hands constantly, these actually saved me a lot of money in pain mitigation lol.
they have a lot more kinds of simple supportive devices for fingers, so i encourage you to take a look at it and research what kind of device might help you if you are having hand pain. the best part about these is pretty much no one clocks them for what they are and i get compliments from my coworkers on my rings. i don’t actually recommend the more decorative ones because the additions can dig in depending on where they are, but i don’t think i’ve ever made a better purchase in my life for what i ended up getting out of it
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“You wouldn’t think jagged bone digging into raw nerves would hurt, but it does.” - Jack
Sure!
In the scene, Sam and Jack are stuck on what they believe is an ice planet. Jack has a broken leg, which Sam reduces (sets) off camera. She then proceeds to splint the injury using a commercial splint and ties.
We’re never told what part of Jack’s leg is broken, and based on the splint they use it could be either. However, the fact that Jack can get up with help tells me he probably has a lower leg fracture.
Given that SG1 did NOT pay the electric bill this episode, here’s the best screenshot I could find for the scene:
(the red line underline’s Jack’s leg and you can kind of see the splint Sam is putting on it).
Most likely it is a SAM splint or some other moldable commercial splint. These are made of a flat, flexible piece of aluminum encased in rubber foam (in the episode it appears to be black, but they are usually orange, see below).
The way they would have attached it would have been something like this (see lower leg in picture below):
Now, what really got me excited was the scene where she is doing the ties. The ties are the pieces of cloth that go around the leg and splint, basically holding the leg and splint together. Getting the ties under the leg is the hardest part of putting on a splint. What you have to do is shimmy the ties up from the foot to the spot you want them at, then tie them over the leg.
This sounds easy, but broken bones are generally way more painful and disabling in real life than they are in adventure fiction. So the reaction Jack has to the tiny movements of shimmying are very realistic. It is also really hard to cause another human that much pain, so Sam crying here is pretty realistic too.
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today: orthotics video appointment!
it was very good!
Suzy the orthotist talk to me and mum and dad, she look at me standing and see my ankle range of motion.
we say about old braces is too much pressure from no padding. i suggest brace with hinge in email, but Suzy say that i need more solid support because my calf muscles is tight. so i need to do stretches and have solid AFO brace at first (with padding and maybe heel raise). then maybe in future if i have more range of motion and less tight calf, and walk more, then can maybe have hinged AFO brace.
apparently all hypermobile patients that Suzy see all have tight calf muscle! she say is “counterintuitive” because all other muscles and joints is loose and flexible. but that is apparently very very common.
Suzy is very nice and listen and suggest best things.
at the end dad say “Suzy understood the assignment” and i laugh a lot 😂
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i have hypermobility and low-ish muscle tone (hypotonia).
low muscle tone mean muscles is too “floppy” and not tense (when i am relax and not put effort for tense muscles). it make difficult to hold body up and support my own weight.
hypermobility is too much range of movement at joints. (for me is especially lower body - hips, knees, ankles. ankles is worst).
so this combination cause ankles roll inwards with stand/put weight on feet, knees bend backwards and turn in because of ankles turn in.
(ankles roll in is called “over pronation”, knees bend backwards is called “knee hyperextension”).
and not have good stability to get momentum for walk and move. and to get body to move is already much harder for me because “floppy” muscle tone. take so much more effort to hold body up.
orthotics will give support around outside of ankles and lower legs. to make better stability to hopefully gain strength and movement and mobility.
(part of my issues is from ME/CFS make me mostly bedbound for years, then get “deconditioning” basically body lose strength from not move for so long. and hope to get that back).
have whole life had problems with pain and tired and joints pressure because “floppy” and weak. but get worse with deconditioning, to make permanent problem with cannot “correct” ankle/knee position.
hope good explain!
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tomorrow is appointment with new different CMHS (community mental health service) doctor. me and mum and dad go all together.
we have to go to the clinic, i will use powerchair (don’t like it, it not have good support and too upright and make tired and so much pain hate hate). mum will stay with me in waiting room and dad will talk to doctor first to tell everything. and if doctor is mean like last bad bad doctor, i will not see doctor.
not looking forward. but at least not have to see doctor if doctor is bad. and dad will do all important talk part. just not like have to sit in bad wheelchair with pain and tired for so so long.
but, good news: orthotics people email and say they can give new better AFOs !! so we tell them what is important for me and what i need and they say we maybe not even need to go for appointment at hospital, can just do online (they already have my leg casts from last time, i think that is just how they will do it). so that is good! hopefully help with walk better and move more - that is big goal for me.
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I exchanged the metal inlay of my new (light-weight, breezy) wrist-splint with the metal inlay of my favourite (padded, sturdier) wrist splint and I swear I’m never going back!!
This new “hybrid” is so perfect, I’m getting emotional
My other “summer option” is using bandages (the martial arts variety) since they are less stuffy and are very versatile but I prefer a splint over a support bandage, usually.
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[[MORE]]Both splints are off Amazon; a Zofore Sport and an Actesso
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#Sprain #ouch #Splints #spoonieproblems #selfiegram #Reeseinthecup (at San Francisco Bay Area)
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