Wrist Injury

[gcoe]

Don't know if you can get it on the NHS. Cananyone from the ?UK advise captain 127?

[Captain127]

thanks a lot mate but ill just go get it checked by various specialists and see, seek an osteopath and see what they say and if its not helpful ill go get an x-ray from the injury department in a hospital again and if not ill see if i can get a referal from a different GP this time for an ultrasound hopefully that will find a problem and if not i will seek out an ostepathic surgeon somewhere

[Captain127]

Thanks mate it seems i have fractured my scaphoid bone and it also seems that i must of sustained it within the time between my 1st x-ray and my 2nd x-ray but i think that it started off as a crack then developed into a fracture in my opinion but anyways ill be seeing a hand specialist. You have been very helpful! thanks a lot!

[dano75]

Hi Captain127,

I know this thread is a month old, but I wanted to know how you are getting on. I read your original post and it was scarily similar to what happened to me. I hope you have had it checked out now.

In 1993 I was playing rugby when I charged down a kick from the opposition scrum half at the back of a maul. Unfortunatley he kicked my hand in the process. It hurt like hell but I ignored it and weeks later it seemed to have got better. Fast forward to the end of 2009. My wrist was hurting more and more with loss of strength and movement. I had it x-rayed and was told that I had suffered a proximal pole fracture of the scaphoid and was also suffering arthritis due to the change in the joint.
May 2010 I had a radialstyloidectomy with a bone graft of the scaphoid. Unfortunately it failed. In December 2010 the scaphoid pole that was floating around was removed. I am still in considerable pain and can hardly move my wrist now. I suspect what will happen next is a fusion of the wrist. I am only 36 years old.

I strongly reccommend if you havn't done so already to have it fully investigated otherwise you could pay for it in the future.

I'm sure lots of people on here will tell you that a scaphiod fracture may not show up on an xray until a few weeks after the injury. Good luck!