Journal Title: پائيـز 87 Article title: Evaluation of the Results of Traditional Treatment of Musculoskeletal Injuries at Khorramabad's Shohadaye Ashayer Hospital of in the First 6 Months of 2005
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Article abstract: Introduction & Objective: Traditional treatments sometimes are effective but it seems that in musculoskeletal injuries it leads to many complications so we decide to evaluate the results in this field, on the other hand local bone setters do their intervention without any permission by health organizations and they are not responsible for the complications.
Materials & Methods: This study involves those patients who had been treated by bonesetters via traditional methods such as splinting by wood and referred to the orthopedic clinic of Khorramabad's Shohadaye Ashayer hospital in the time interval 20.01.2005 to 20.08.2005.
Results: 104 Patients had been treated by nonscientific methods. The most common injury which was treated by this method was distal radius fracture (21%) and the second most common injury was fracture of metaphysis of distal radius (9.6%). The most common education level of patients or their parents was mid school certificate (30.7%). The most common complication was malunion and the second was restriction of range of motion (ROM) (41% and 17%by order). The most common method was wood splinting (71%).
Conclusions: Most of the patients who had been treated with traditional methods had only one musculoskeletal injury. So they didn’t feel that it was necessary to refer to hospital, thereby referred they prefer to bonesetters.
The most common complication is malunion so it seems that because patients have no X-rays they have no insight about displacement of bones and don’t exactly feel their problem's depth and on the other hand bone setters cannot reduce fractures correctly because they don’t know positions of fracture parts. Limitation of R.O.M occurs because of malpositioning of extremities by bonesetters and lack of appropriate physiotherapy during and after the treatment.
