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Dear Doctor, Let me introduce myself as Sarath Chandra, Age-28, Resident of India. I recently met with an accident (On March 7th 2018) where my elbow got fractured .Now its been two months, so can I start doing exercises to my elbow for extension. Kindly suggest if full extension is possible or not in this case
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usually we initiate exercises by 3 weeks. Its very subjective depending on fixation, quality of reduction and natur eof fracture
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Share your X-rays. In Elbow mostly start movements early
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