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[quote=Anonymous](I'm 00:01) - This will be my public service for the day.  Nursemaid's elbow (dislocated elbow) is something that's super-common in kids under four because that bone is not fully developed so instead of being a shaft with a knob (if that makes sense) it's just a shaft.

Dislocated elbows look completely and totally normal, and they're not painful to the kids unless they're being moved / manipulated, so it's not surprising it wasn't noticed.  The only thing is that they won't be able to move their hand / wrist and they'll kind of hold it at an odd angle.  As I said, it's super-common, and my father-in-law diagnosed it over the phone in about two minutes (we did have to then go to the ER to get it reset), but if you haven't seen it before you wouldn't know what you were looking at (at least we didn't).

Because that bone is really undeveloped and it's easy to dislocate, you should never swing kids under four around unless you are holding them above the elbows - I always wince when i see people doing that.  We actually have no idea how it got dislocated, perhaps when we put on his pajamas the night before?  It's that easy to do.[/quote]

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