![]() We first start thinking about surgical interventions after rib fractures, really after a two-month period of time. Varghese: Some discomfort and some pain even afterward. Miller: So they can expect to have some discomfort?ĭr. Varghese: It's usually, generally bone healing takes about four to six weeks.ĭr. How long does it usually take for a rib to heal? That is, the patient will say, "I'm having pain." What is it, two weeks, three weeks, six weeks?ĭr. How Long Does It Take a Broken Rib to Heal?ĭr. With the fracture there, is the bone in alignment? And as long as the alignment is okay, giving those patients pain relief, and a period of rest, rib fractures should heal by themselves. ![]() Varghese: The good thing is that 85 percent of rib fractures heal on their own, and what we're really looking at is the alignment. When might you look at that fracture and say, "You know, it's not really going to heal without me going in there and repairing the rib?"ĭr. Miller: So a patient falls and is injured in a sports event, a sporting event. Is the injury only in the ribs or is there associated nerve damage? Is there associated muscle damage or other bones affected? Because really, we can't just isolate and just treat the ribs without considering other damage that's occurred as a result of the injury.ĭr. It's one of the things that we have to really talk to patients about and try to differentiate it out. They occur in conjunction with other types of injury. Oftentimes rib fractures don't occur in isolation. One of the things that we really go down to get the details about is the mechanism of the injury. Obviously, you can't cast a fractured rib, so when can you surgically intervene on a fractured rib?ĭr. Tom, tell us a little bit about when patients come to you for rib fractures and if there is a surgical treatment for that. He's a thoracic surgeon and works in the Department of Surgery here at the University of Utah. We're going to talk about that next on Scope Radio. Miller: Surgical interventions for rib fractures.
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