Depending on the type of surgery you have, you may be placed in a splint for up to 12 weeks after surgery. Your surgeon will X-ray the wrist several times after surgery to make sure that the bones are healing properly. Once the two halves of the scaphoid bone have healed, you can sa...
When a scaphoid fracture is diagnosed, its site, degree of displacement and any associated instability should determine the degree of intervention and the length of time required in plaster. This again gives the patient more information about the long-term future than many have had hitherto. The ...
Athletes with suspected second or third degree sprains should be immediately immobilized with arigid splint(hand, wrist, and forearm) and then placed in ashoulder slingto immobilize the elbow and referred for medical evaluation. Once a fracture/dislocation has been ruled out and a sprained wrist h...
A cast, splint, or brace may be placed on your child's wrist to decrease movement. These devices will help hold the bones in place while they heal. Traction may be needed if your child's bones broke into 2 pieces. Traction pulls on the bones to pull them back into place. A pin may...
·Immobilize the extremity in an injury-appropriate splint to prevent movement of the fracture oGeneral principle of splinting: the joint above and below the injury should be immobilized oSee individual fracture or injury patterns for specifically indicated splints, which may include a sugar tong, sh...
It may result from a nonunited or malunited fracture of the scaphoid or distal radius; disruption of the intercarpal, radiocarpal, radioulnar, or ulnocarpal ligaments; avascular necrosis of the carpus; or a developmental abnormality. Whatever the cause, subsequent abnormal joint loading produces ...
Scaphoid Fracture of the Wrist A Patient’s Guide to Scaphoid Fracture of the Wrist Introduction Doctors commonly diagnose a sprained wrist after a patient falls on an outstretched hand. However, if pain and swelling don’t go away, doctors become suspicious that the injury is actually more seri...
Yip HSF, Wu WC, Chang RYP, et al. Percutaneous cannulated screw fixation of acute scaphoid waist fracture. J Hand Surg Br 2002;27:42–46. ArticlePubMedCASGoogle Scholar Bond CD, Shin AY, McBride MT, et al. Percutaneous screw fixation or cast immobilization for nondisplaced scaphoid fracture...
For a wrist sprain, the doctor may decide to treat you with no splint, a Velcro wrist splint, or plaster splint (like a cast). The decision about a splint will be based on your level of pain, amount of swelling, restriction of movement, and concern about an occult or hidden fracture....
Causes of wrist fracture include fall onto an outstretched hand and direct trauma. Site of injury may be identified by ecchymosis or swelling. Distal radius, scaphoid, and lunate fractures usually are the result of a fall on an outstretched hand. Wrist fractures may also be caused by hyper...