Just wanted to point out that fractures in pediatric patients can sometimes present differently than fractures in adult patients. Pediatric bones tend to be more soft and malleable. Rather than breaking into separate parts, the bones may only bend or buckle; these are known as buckle fractures.
Hi Julie,
what an awful story. Your baby had no way of indicating where the pain was while they were searching at the wrong place.
However, I can imagine that without swelling it is sometimes not easy to find a fracture in a very young person.
There is no way of telling from here whether it made the fracture worse. I all depends on the fracture itself. When the fracture has sharp edges, it can easily damage surrounding tissue. When the bone parts are still connected (more a crack than a fracture) damage will not be done.
Are you sure that the femur was broken? that is the bone between hip and knee, so not in the bottom of the leg!
Anyway, I hope your baby recovers quickly, so you both can soon forget this accident.
Take care,
Ger