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Case Study: Bledsoe Surgery

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The patient is a 89-year-old female who is sent to the ER because of a fall with acute pain, swelling and tenderness St. at home for the patient intravenous unable to bear weight left leg injury occurred approximately 4 hours before presentation. Her medical history is significant for Bell's Palsy, depression, hypothyroidism, peripheral neuropathy, macular degeneration, she has had a knee replacement on the left and the right and she has also had previously periprosthetic fracture on the left side in August of 2014. She was again has a periprosthetic fracture on the left side. The decision was made to treat the patient nonoperatively. She will be placed in a brace. She will actually get a Bledsoe brace with 15° of flexion. She will be
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