On average, it costs $390 for Sokhon's treatment
- Symptoms
- Impact on patient's life
- Cultural or regional significance
What kinds of symptoms do patients experience before receiving treatment?
A reduction procedure is needed to correct alignment of bones. After a bone fracture, parts of the bone can become displaced or angulated.
What is the impact on patients’ lives of living with these conditions?
Living with fractured or misaligned bones can be painful and limits functionality, which can interfere with day-to-day tasks.
What cultural or regional factors affect the treatment of these conditions?
In Cambodia, road rules are largely unregulated and traffic accidents occur frequently, often causing fractures and bone dislocations.
- Process
- Impact on patient's life
- Risks and side-effects
- Accessibility
- Alternatives
What does the treatment process look like?
Reduction procedures are classified as open reduction and closed reduction. In an open reduction, surgery is performed to expose the fracture fragments at the site of the injury and realign the bones. In a closed reduction, bones are reset without surgical exposure.
What is the impact of this treatment on the patient’s life?
Reduction procedures can greatly improve quality of life by reducing the pain from the fractured bone and allowing mobility and use of it.
What potential side effects or risks come with this treatment?
Closed reductions have fewer risks than open reductions, as they do not carry the potential complications of any surgical exposure. Risks of closed reduction procedures include injury to nerves or blood vessels near the affected bone and blood clot formation. In addition to these, risks of open reduction also include infection and stiffness.
How accessible is treatment in the area? What is the typical journey like for a patient to receive care?
Reduction procedures, especially those that require surgeries, are not easily accessed or afforded by many Cambodians. Patients will travel for many hours to reach CSC for free surgical treatment.
What are the alternatives to this treatment?
For patients in need of reduction procedures to reset a misaligned bone, few alternatives exist. Traditional healers are often used, but with unsuccessful results.
