{"id":391,"date":"2004-12-19T22:23:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T22:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2004-12-19T22:23:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T22:23:00","slug":"a-promising-range-of-motion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/19\/a-promising-range-of-motion\/","title":{"rendered":"A Promising Range of Motion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At two weeks, I went back for my follow-up visit.  The cast came off, the staples came out, and after an X-Ray, the doctor pronounced that the bone had achieved &#8220;excellent anatomic reduction&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/reduction.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/reduction.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even before I went in, my friends were all commenting that my fingers seemed to be moving better in the cast\/sling thing they had me in, as did the physician&#8217;s assistant when I arrived; however, once the cast came off the doctor positively cooed over the flex in my fingers and the range of rotation.  &#8220;Look at that rotation right out of the box.  Are your nerves OK?  Flex your fingers.  Ok.  That&#8217;s great.  You&#8217;ll get full function back in that arm.&#8221;  A promising range of motion indeed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/boneplate.jpg\"><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/images\/boneplate.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be carrying this charming little comb of metal around in my arm for a while &#8212; and likely carrying a card to get myself through airport security for a while &#8212; but darn, modern medicine is grand.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At two weeks, I went back for my follow-up visit. The cast came off, the staples came out, and after an X-Ray, the doctor pronounced that the bone had achieved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-break","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}