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One or more bones in your arm or leg were broken and have been operated on.

The arms and legs each consist of various long bones. These long bones can be divided into different sections. The bones have a long, straight section in the middle. At their ends, the long bones are joined to other bones by joints.

In your case the bone ends have broken into various pieces at the joint. You had an operation to bring the broken parts back together and put them into their normal position.

The break was stabilized using long nails.

The purpose of the nails is to stabilize the bone from inside. To achieve this, they are inserted into the space inside the bone. The long nails are inserted through bones and join these bones together. Joints, for example, can be temporarily reinforced like this.