Managing your catheter and drainage bag
A urinary catheter is a narrow tube passed into your bladder in one of two ways. It may enter through your urethra (water pipe) or through your abdomen just above…
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Managing with one hand following injury or surgery
This leaflet has been designed to provide you with advice and techniques to be able to manage at home following hand, wrist, elbow or shoulder injury, immobilisation or surgery.
Medial Malleolus Fracture
You have sustained a fracture to your medial malleolus (bone on the inside of ankle). Please see the picture below to understand where this injury is. This normally takes approximately…
Midshaft Humerus Fracture
You have sustained a fracture to the middle portion of your humerus (upper arm bone). This normally takes between 9-12 weeks to unite (heal).
Midshaft Fibula Fracture
You have sustained an isolated fracture to the middle of you your fibula (outside bone in your leg). This normally takes approximately 6 weeks to unite (heal) although pain and…
Mouth biopsy performed under local anaesthetic
A biopsy is when a sample of tissue is taken from a part of the body. It is then looked at under the microscope to make a diagnosis. A biopsy…
Mucous Cyst
A mucous cyst is a ganglion that appears on the back of a finger or thumb, near the end joint (DIP joint in the finger, IP joint in the thumb)….
Neck of 5th Metacarpal Fracture
You have sustained an injury to the neck of your 5th meta carpal (long bone on the outside of your hand)…
Nerve damage associated with an operation under general anaesthetic
This information is supplied by the Royal College of Anaesthetists
Nerve damage associated with peripheral nerve block
This information is supplied by the Royal College of Anaesthetists.