Alfred is the field medic Cave medic but Bruce is absolutely the dislocation guy. Elbow pops out? Alfred feels for the dislocation and then gives Bruce the go ahead. Minimum amount of pressure needed with the dexterity of a doctor’s hands. Dick dislocates his shoulder and for years afterward it just pops out. Instead of trying to jam it back in himself, he just shows up at the Cave, gives Bruce the puppy dog eyes, and suddenly he’s got a shoulder again and Bruce didn’t have to pull, or yank, or medicate him to do it. Because this is a man who had to fix his OWN dislocations on his own for years, and the older Alfred got, the less able he was fully manipulate a shoulder socket on a 225 lb behemoth of a man. Every time Jason (as Red Hood) punches someone just a little wrong, two of his fingers dislocate. He tries to wrap them in tape, but Bruce Knows. He always Knows, and the moment those fingers are in his vicinity, he reaches out, pretends to hand something to Jason, and pops them back in. and Jason falls for it every damn time. Tim has the worst dislocation — his knee — and begs Bruce to teach him to jam it back into place on his own. Damian dislocates his jaw in a fight where Robin caught the wrong end of a stick across the wrong part of the face (if there is a right part) and cries through it because it’s painful, yes, but also because Bruce herds him against some cover, sanitizes his hands, and pops it back into place, and immediately benches him for the rest of the evening because jaw dislocations swell SO much and Damian’s cheek is already swelling.
