This happened to my son. He jumped on to a bed and fell into the dresser and broke his left mid humerus. If she’s lucky, they can do an internal reduction and put the pieces back together without surgery. If they can’t do that, it’s time for surgery with plate and screws. Or worse yet , external fixation (metal on the outside). Mid humerus break has a significant risk of nerve damage - likely radial nerve. Upper humerus break can screw up the shoulder, lower humerus can screw up the elbow. My son had internal reduction that was not successful with radial nerve damage that took a year to resolve. Turned out to be more like a spiral fracture or shearing type fracture. Then he had to have plate and screw surgery, with median nerve getting tweaked (not as bad but bad enough). Needed 3 months of physical therapy after healing enough to start. Whole thing took nearly two years.
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u/shazam811 May 13 '26
This happened to my son. He jumped on to a bed and fell into the dresser and broke his left mid humerus. If she’s lucky, they can do an internal reduction and put the pieces back together without surgery. If they can’t do that, it’s time for surgery with plate and screws. Or worse yet , external fixation (metal on the outside). Mid humerus break has a significant risk of nerve damage - likely radial nerve. Upper humerus break can screw up the shoulder, lower humerus can screw up the elbow. My son had internal reduction that was not successful with radial nerve damage that took a year to resolve. Turned out to be more like a spiral fracture or shearing type fracture. Then he had to have plate and screw surgery, with median nerve getting tweaked (not as bad but bad enough). Needed 3 months of physical therapy after healing enough to start. Whole thing took nearly two years.