He is now in your office.
Range of motion is impossible to assess.
Well, I posted this case because it is apparently simple, but can be made as complicated as you want. Pediatric forearm fractures with intermediate displacement pose difficult management decisions - if they were more displaced or less displaced, the treatment decision would require no thought. Still, the basic options are to either let it remodel or set it. I know that the traditional approach of of simple closed reduction, rechecking in the office, possibly resetting, rechecking, etc. until the fracture is healed has a strong historical precedent, but I believe it relies heavily on luck - that the reduction holds, that the patient shows up on schedule, that you can assess reduction drift accurately and in time to correct it, and most importantly that remodeling will correct any remaining displacement. Clearly, attempts at reduction, and in particular completing a greenstick fracture, may make the fracture more unstable.