Symptoms Of Congenital Insensitivity To Pain

Bone Deformities Due To Past Fractures

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Sometimes broken bones are obvious, and individuals may hear the bone break or easily observe an arm or leg bending in a way it's not supposed to. However, other breaks can be more discrete. You may simply fracture a bone or suffer a break in a less obvious place like a rib or your tailbone. These breaks and fractures get diagnosed using an x-ray when you go to the doctor complaining of pain. Individuals with CIPA don't feel this pain and so often suffer bone breaks and fractures unknowingly. Without medical treatment, these fractured bones may heal on their own but do so improperly or in the wrong position. As a result, patients with CIPA often have bone deformities due to past fractures. Some are visible only on an x-ray while others cause more noticeable deformities.

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