At follow-up, they had no pain and the wrist had a full range of motion. Because the fracture of the scaphoid may not be apparent just after the injury, inappropriate treatment may be prescribed. For this reason, it is important to recognize both elements of this fracture pattern....
Fracture of the scaphoid bone occurs most frequently from a fall onto the outstretched hand. Typically there is pain initially, but the pain may decrease after days or weeks. Bruising is rare, and swelling may be minimal. Since there is no deformity, many people with this injury mistakenly as...
But it is important that your doctor know exactly where your pain is coming from. Doctors should assume that any patient who has fallen on an outstretched hand and has swelling or tenderness on the thumb side of the wrist has a scaphoid fracture. You should assume this until tests prove ...
● Provide pain medications, as needed Procedures ● If suspected fracture but radiographically negative ⚬ Short arm thumb spica splint ● If radiographically apparent ⚬ Long arm thumb spica splint ● TIP: it is unnecessary to include the interphalangeal (IP) joint in the thumb spica splint...
Although the latter injuries may be described as 'trivial', they may cause persistent pain if the wrist is not immobilized for a period of at least two weeks. The primary diagnosis of these small lesions may therefore be considered valuable. SUMMARY One hundred cases of fracture of the carpal...
In this study, 40 patients with negative radiographs but clinically suspected scaphoid fracture, all had rapid bone scintigraphy with images taken 15min after intravenous injection of 99m-Technetium Hydroxymethylene diphosphonate. The scan was performed approximately 2 weeks after the trauma. We found ...
One patient reported a feeling of friction during movement but no pain. One patient reported numbness in the donor site. One patient complained of pain when applying force to the scar in the donor area. During the follow‐up period, these complications showed improvement without any treatment. ...
Knee pain may be present up to 6 weeks postoperatively, but we have not had any patients report persistent discomfort beyond that. Injury to the saphenous nerve is also a risk with sensory loss or painful neuroma but to date has not been a problem. At the wrist, persistent nonunion, ...
Donor site pain was universal to all studies, and the use of a knee brace for 2 weeks was adopted for femoral VBGs. Five patients (8.9%) suffered ectopic bone formation with three requiring resection. However, no major complications such as fracture at the knee or instability at the wrist...
We think transplantation of the iliac crest medial plate as well as less soft tissue dissection may help to relieve the pain in donor region; (2) if the fracture fragment is too small to find appropriate ASC to meet the requirements of solid fixation, it is easy to cause failure of ...