How can you tell if your femur is okay after a fall?

After a fall, you should consult a doctor in time, and the specialist will make a judgment based on the history, symptoms, signs and auxiliary examination to clarify the injury of the femoral head.
1. Medical history: after a fall, the specifics of the injury should be clarified, whether there is any bump or impact on the femoral head, whether there is a combination of multiple injuries, internal organ injuries, and so on.
2. Symptoms: After femoral head injury, localized pain, swelling, deformity, femoral friction sound and other symptoms may appear, accompanied by severe functional activity limitation.
3. Physical signs: femoral head injury can be seen in the examination of the affected side of the hip swelling, severe pain, hip joint dislocation, the affected side of the lower limb shortening, presenting deformities such as flexion, internal retraction and external rotation.
4. Auxiliary examination: X-ray examination of the pelvis and the affected hip anterior and posterior position can be carried out to determine whether there is any continuity disruption of the femoral head, separation and displacement, angular deformity, etc. If the diagnosis is not clear from the X-ray examination, CT and magnetic resonance examination can be carried out to determine the damage of the femoral head.
After a fall, one should consult a doctor in time to see if there is any injury to the femoral head under the guidance of a specialized doctor, and if there is any injury, appropriate treatment should be carried out in time, which will help to recover from the injury as soon as possible.