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* External fixation: casts, back slabs, walking casts, splints, and/or slings, e.g. back slab applied for broken metatarsal bones: | * External fixation: casts, back slabs, walking casts, splints, and/or slings, e.g. back slab applied for broken metatarsal bones: | ||
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=== Fusion vs Fixation === | {{CCI_Therapeutic}}=== Fusion vs Fixation === | ||
*The subtlety here is to distinguish it from '''[[Fusion]]''' of a body part which is also used to stabilize things -- so if the way the stabilization was done was by fusing 2 similar and adjacent body parts together (e.g. fusion of 2 or more spinal bones), then use '''[[Fusion]]''' instead of [[Fixation]]. | *The subtlety here is to distinguish it from '''[[Fusion]]''' of a body part which is also used to stabilize things -- so if the way the stabilization was done was by fusing 2 similar and adjacent body parts together (e.g. fusion of 2 or more spinal bones), then use '''[[Fusion]]''' instead of [[Fixation]]. | ||