scaphoid fracture
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Broke mine a few years ago, but the blood supply didn't re-establish itself and I suffered from avascular necrosis (I think). Still hurts at times even now, but the biggest problem is severely restricted up/down movement (around 45 degrees total). Reckon it's too late now, so I'll live with it. Put paid to sports bikes, unfortunately.
Is it that crappy little bone in the little hole at the bottom of your thumb?
If so I broke mine Millenium Eve - yes i was drunk.
3 days later it was confirmed as broken.
6-8 weeks in plaster - you can still drive I seem to remember and do anything else that you need to do with your important hand.....
However I do still get twinges from it, and recently its been aching when i wake up and i've been finding it hurts when I lift things like a cup of coffee. I'm not sure how but i seem to aggrevated it - i keep meaning to go and see the doctors but havn't got around to it.......
So all in all you should be fine...... but..... well you might not be.
If so I broke mine Millenium Eve - yes i was drunk.
3 days later it was confirmed as broken.
6-8 weeks in plaster - you can still drive I seem to remember and do anything else that you need to do with your important hand.....
However I do still get twinges from it, and recently its been aching when i wake up and i've been finding it hurts when I lift things like a cup of coffee. I'm not sure how but i seem to aggrevated it - i keep meaning to go and see the doctors but havn't got around to it.......
So all in all you should be fine...... but..... well you might not be.
Fractured mine when I was 16/17 usual x-ray and told it was a bad sprain, 6 weeks later still giving me grief so another x-ray reveals a fracture! 6 weeks in a cast re x-rayed and told all is well, 5 years later after numerous visits (approx once a month) to see specialists and x-ray after x-ray they decided to put me in a CT scan machine, this showed up a lovely fracture stil present, I now have a hole in my pelvis where bone was removed to graft into the scaphoid along with a nice little screw to keep it all in place.
I nearly had to go down the old bone graft route when I broke the Calcaneous (the heel bone) in my foot.
These bones are notorious for heeling poorly because of their location and nature of their job, and are very difficult to actually break. My foot is pretty much buggered now, even 9 yrs on from the break, it will never be the same, doesn't even feel the same anymore and gives me constant grief.
These bones are notorious for heeling poorly because of their location and nature of their job, and are very difficult to actually break. My foot is pretty much buggered now, even 9 yrs on from the break, it will never be the same, doesn't even feel the same anymore and gives me constant grief.
I did the same thing fractured the scaphoid bone in my left hand, I fell over when drunk. Just a dull throbing but in the morning my wrist had swollen and I took a trip to the hospital. I got plastered up for two weeks, they took a second ex-ray, confirmed the fracture and put me in a plastic cast. I can't remember how long for but 8 weeks seems about right.
Never had any problems from it after that. The plaster was not up to my finger tips but I could not touch any of my fingers on that hand to my thumb, which ment picking things up was difficult. Fractured Saturday, plastered Sunday, in work on Monday.
A freind did something similar, got plastered up for 2 weeks only to find no fracture
Never had any problems from it after that. The plaster was not up to my finger tips but I could not touch any of my fingers on that hand to my thumb, which ment picking things up was difficult. Fractured Saturday, plastered Sunday, in work on Monday.
A freind did something similar, got plastered up for 2 weeks only to find no fracture
ali_kat said:
How do I wash? Dress? etc?
With dificulty. You can tape a bin liner over your arm to have a shower. The plaster cast should not get wet, however the stronger plastic type cast they put on when they confirm the fracture you can get wet, whether you should or not I don't know but I got mine wet just takes a bit of time to dry out. 
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