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What Could On And Off Pain In Forearm Where Rods Are Placed Due To Broken Arm Mean?
i broke my arm about 5 years ago and i have to rods in my forearm and im getting like sharp pains around the area of the plates and its more of like a internal pain and it lasts like 20sec and goes away and it have been doing it off and on the past 2 days why is it doing that?
Fri, 24 Feb 2017
Hello,
Sometimes a screw or another piece of the hardware comes loose and this causes some temporary pains. See an orthopedic surgeon. They may want to do some x-rays to check the hardware in your arm.
Regards
Sometimes a screw or another piece of the hardware comes loose and this causes some temporary pains. See an orthopedic surgeon. They may want to do some x-rays to check the hardware in your arm.
Regards
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