Nursemaid’s elbow, Babysitter’s elbow or Pulled elbow is a dislocation of the elbow joint caused by a sudden pull on the extended pronated arm, such as by an adult tugging on an uncooperative child. The technical term for the injury is radial head subluxation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursemaid%27s_elbow
While passing a crosswalk Anders was not as cooperative as I wanted, and combined with the fact that a bus was approaching us I grabbed his arm and pulled him over to the other side. He then started to cry a bit and seemed uncomfortable. I then carried him home and realized when he got undressed that his left arm was just hanging straight down. We headed straight for the emergency ward where we immediately got help. The doctor spent about a minute or two figuring out what had happened, then he spent just 5 seconds and voila…just like magic the arm was fixed and just a minute afterwards Anders was climbing around on everything like nothing had happened.
Must admit that I felt like a very bad parent having caused him such an injury, but then again I was calmed down at the emergency ward when the doctor told me that this was a very common injury and that at least Anders was better of with the injury than being hit by a bus…puhh!!