How do you know if your wrist is fractured? How is a fractured wrist treated?
Wrist Fractures I felt myself slipping and stretched my arm out for support. Now my wrist is swollen and painful. Is it broken? Symptoms of pain, swelling and deformity are characteristic of a fracture. However, this impression should always be supported by an X ray. This X ray shows a fracture of the lower end of the forearm, an injury so common that it is called a Colles fracture after one of the early bonesetters. What should be done about a wrist fracture and when? This fracture is best treated as soon after the injury as reasonable and certainly before there is marked swelling and muscle spasm. Under ordinary circumstances, the patient need not stay in the hospital after the bone has been manipulated back into position and a cast applied. The entire procedure can be painlessly accomplished by injecting a local anesthetic into the fracture site. Why do you take another X ray after you set the wrist fracture? How long will this cast be on? What does the cast ...