scottland

So I'll start this one with a little advice. If the thought even crosses your mind, that you might have a broken wrist, do yourself a favor and have it x-rayed.

I took a nasty spill about 2 months ago, and didn't think much of it. I just thought it was a sprain like the other 5,000 sprains I've had in my life. It was swollen pretty bad the next day, but got better over the course of a week to the point i had about 80% range of motion, and little pain.

But it never got any better than that. So I thought, it wouldn't be a bad idea to have it checked out, since it's been about 8 weeks or so. Sure enough, broken navicular(scaphoid) in my wrist. It's gonna need a screw put in it, and then a cast for a couple months. So, if you sprain a wrist bad enough where you even, maybe, possibly, think that it could be fractured, have it x-rayed.

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snowvols

That sucks hopefully the surgery will go good.

nzboardlife

Last night i went over on my ankle whilst drunk and clubbing... i've broken this ankle twice and its swelled up pretty bad but i can walk on it, and this is not the first time this is happened since i last broke it and i usually only get 80% range once this process is over but im way to scared to get it checked with the season about to start :|

No_Chaser

My buddy broke his wrist this season, clean break. Went off a ledge and landed on a semi-kicker. He took off his glove and his hand was backwards.

BC-Rider

^^^ aww I did not need to know that :O I couldn't imagine the pain that he was in.

colortv

@scotland
the SAME EXACT THING HAPPENED TO ME! i landed on my wrist and at the time of the injury i was more concerned about my thumb, cus tht one hurt like a bitch, but not that its been a couple months, this happened on new years eve, i'm at the 80% thing and it hurts if i twist it at a certain angle. same thing with my ankle. cept the doctors said that one was just a really bad sprain.
maybe i should go and get it checked out.... ]:?

Simply^Ride

That sucks men, sorry to hear that. Men I had so many broken bones that I can't even count them over 12 or so, don't remember. I think my bones are really brittle, although this was in my teens mostly. I feel your pain, hopefully your surgery goes well and the recovery is fast. When is the surgery scheduled for? I have been lucky enough to avoid surgery in every break I had .

Bobafett

You know that you don't have a navicular bone in the hand? It's the scaphoid. Incidentally, interesting point here is that scaphoid fractures often don't show up initially on x-ray. What we tend to do is splint the wrist and bring the person back to a fracture clinic to have further x-rays if we have any suspicion of a scaphoid fracture. Suspicion usually arises from tenderness in the 'anatomical snuff box' which is the area lying between the two obvious tendons to the thumb on the back of your hand (seen when you push your thumb out to the side). There we go, lesson for today over!!!! ;-)

scottland

I got referred to a hand/wrist specialist from the orthopedic surgeon I went to. That appointment is Monday. I don't mind the surgery part so much, it's the extended period of time in a cast that I'm not looking forward to

Simply^Ride

Cast are not bad, look at it this was you have the whole summer to recover. The only thing I hate about casts are how itchy they get. Good luck