I Can Hear the Heart's Voice of Traditional Chinese Medicine-Chapter 414 - 171: Just Treat It Casually as a Personal Matter, No Need to Rush to the Hospital
Thinking of this, Lu Xuan stood up directly: "If I’m not mistaken, the person you’re looking for should be me."
"You’re Dr. Lu?"
The man looked at Lu Xuan in surprise. Previously, when Ji Yongfeng mentioned it, he assumed that the Dr. Lu he was referring to was an elder, not expecting him to be so young.
However, recalling how the elderly man and another aunt spoke so highly of Dr. Lu, the man had no doubts. He quickly explained the child’s situation to Lu Xuan.
After listening, Lu Xuan made a quick judgment: "It might be a dislocation. I’ll go down and take a look at the child."
"Thank you, thank you, Dr. Lu." The man was full of gratitude.
"Uncle, Sister Cheng, I’ll go down first and see the child."
"Go ahead, go ahead."
Lu Xuan left a word and directly followed the man towards the platform halfway up the mountain.
Wang Youqing and the others exchanged looks and decided to follow along to see what was really going on, so they got up and slowly followed behind Lu Xuan and the man.
Upon reaching the platform, Lu Xuan indeed saw Ji Yongfeng and an aunt who had previously sought his consultation, along with a woman, attending to a child who was crying loudly.
"Dr. Lu, this child just fell from a chair, and his left hand suddenly can’t be lifted. I suspect it’s a dislocation." Seeing Lu Xuan arrive, Ji Yongfeng quickly explained the child’s situation.
"Let me take a look."
Lu Xuan moved beside the child, motioned for the child’s mother to let the child sit on her lap, and under the worried gaze of the parents, gently squeezed the child’s drooping left arm.
Lu Xuan wasn’t very familiar with bone-setting, with his first and only experience being with Su Kenan. Since then, he hadn’t encountered a situation requiring bone-setting, leaving him with very little experience. He definitely couldn’t make a judgment on his own, so he had to rely on his group of mentors.
However, based on the first experience alone, it was likely just a dislocation.
But at this moment, he wasn’t very certain.
Fortunately, these mentors were quite talkative, especially when they finally encountered a patient needing bone-setting knowledge, they eagerly started to contribute.
[It should be a dislocation, but our Dr. Lu here doesn’t have much experience in bone-setting, with his only experience being more than half a month ago.]
[I saw it last time too. Dr. Lu’s technique is quite standard, just a bit unfamiliar, clearly lacking experience. However, it’s just a minor bone misalignment in a child, it shouldn’t be too difficult for Dr. Lu.]
[What’s a minor bone misalignment?]
[Oh! Someone doesn’t know?]
[Is it surprising to not know about bone-setting?]
[The arm bone, also known as the humerus lower end, upper end of the arm bone, also called the horse eye, commonly known as the humero-radial region; a minor bone misalignment is when the radial bone head shifts and blocks the horse eye. The cause is usually a fall or pulling force, causing the bone to shift inward or outward, blocking the horse eye.] 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
[What are the symptoms in this case?]
[In this condition, the arm hangs, unable to flex and rotate, unable to hold objects, causing immediate pain but not much swelling. If the bone shifts outward, the elbow appears wide. If it shifts inward, the elbow appears normal, full under the armpit. Based on what the child is experiencing and what Dr. Lu just felt, it should be a minor bone misalignment.]
[So that’s a minor bone misalignment. How do you reset it? Please explain further.]
[It’s actually quite simple, instruct the parent to hold the child, with the injured elbow on the outside for the procedure. Let the assistant hold the lower end of the upper arm with one hand, keeping it still. The doctor will support the injured elbow with one hand, with the thumb on the outside of the radial head, placing the index and middle fingers on the inside of the injured elbow. Use the other hand to hold the index and middle fingers of the injured arm, pulling gently. Rotate the injured arm’s palm upward, then switch the hand holding the index and middle fingers to holding the lower end of the forearm, straighten the injured elbow joint, press the radial head with the thumb, and at the same time, flex the injured elbow joint, allowing the patient’s fingers to touch the shoulder. If there’s a snapping sound at the joint, it means it’s been reset.]
[It sounds not too difficult, I wonder if Dr. Lu can do it.]
[Based on Dr. Lu’s previous bone-setting, he can definitely do this minor bone setting. It’s just that Dr. Lu doesn’t have much experience, so his technique might be a bit unfamiliar. However, Dr. Lu has done something that most bone-setting doctors can’t match.]
[What is it?]
[It’s how standard his technique is!]
[Dr. Lu’s bone-setting technique, though not adept, is as textbook-standard as it gets, which isn’t something you can learn just through experience.]
[That does seem to be the case...]
[Hey... Dr. Lu seems to be starting.]
...
The noise around made Lu Xuan unable to help laughing, but facing the worried couple, he restrained himself. He instructed the mother to hold the child, then turned to Ji Xiuwen, who had just arrived, and said, "Hold the lower end of the child’s upper arm with one hand, and don’t let the child move."
Although Ji Xiuwen could not perform bone-setting, he knew that it was Lu Xuan who had reset Su Kenan’s ankle before, so without hesitation, he held the child’s upper arm as Lu Xuan instructed.
Lu Xuan then began to operate based on what he had just heard.
He placed his thumb on the outside of the radial head, the index and middle fingers on the inside of the injured elbow, and the other hand holding the index and middle fingers of the injured arm, pulling gently...
After a short while, he heard a slight clicking sound in the joint. After confirming carefully again, Lu Xuan finally set the child’s arm down, looking up to the woman: "Do you have any candy?"
The woman didn’t know why Lu Xuan wanted candy, but she instinctively took a lollipop out of her bag.
