Scaphoid Fracture 5 months (8 weeks immob)

[Josephine]

Depends how your hospital works. At my hospital, the hand surgeons have clinics in the Fracture Clinic and all hand injuries are referred to them as a matter of course. Personally I'd pitch for a hand surgeon ....

Additional Comment I forgot:

6 weeks later and pain is minimal and specialist believes that the scaphoid is fully healed, thus removal of restirctions.

All is good now

Excellent! I am very pleased for you.

[zymotik]

Went to the GP this morning. He did a blood pressure test. After that he checked for pain by pressing in the 'snuff box' area, which didn't hurt.(Pressure on the top of my wrist while hand slightly bent inward causes pain.) He referred me to the local hospital outpatients department for an x-ray, results due by letter in a week’s time.... (I noticed the xray machine was made circa 1970, no digital here!) I had a brief chat with the friendly staff there and they informed me that the GP cannot order a bone scan, fracture clinic have to do it. After being bounced back and forth from fracture clinic to hand surgery with this fracture last time, I'm unsure what will happen next........ I'm hoping the xray shows something up!


Attached pic shows where the pain is, between the blue dots. Pain is when flexing the wrist in any direction, getting out of a chair, or applying pressure to the area. No pain when picking something up or pulling on my fingers or thumb.






1 day old scaphoid fracture xray, left wrist and hand: