How do I know if my wrist is broken, sparined, or factored?!


Question: How do I know if my wrist is broken, sparined, or factored?
my wrist is bad hurting like a shooting pain on the side of it and the pain is going up to my thumb and index finger, and up to my elbow. I put ice and an ace bandage on it the whole day and its worse now!

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Unfortunately you have omitted describing the mechanism of injury. Assuming that the issue is one of trauma, depending on the type and force an X Ray may be the only way to determine the damage.

GP for more years than I care to remember



If it is sprained you don't want to put ice on it, ice will make the pain worse. Sprains are tight tendons and muscles and icing them makes them smaller yet to give you more pain and makes the overall length of time to recover longer as well. Heat would be better for a sprain and freeing up the muscles is best. Here's how to free up your wrist to get rid of that pain:
Wrist:
With hand resting in front of you with the palm up, bend your wrist as far as you can.. Then press into the area behind the wrist, where they take your pulse, and hold a good amount of pressure on it. After 30 seconds slowly open your wrist up as far as you can, release the pressure but hold your wrist open for another 30 seconds.
For best results relax your body first by taking a deep breath and exhaling then remain this relaxed.



i had the same thing when i was skateboarding one day, i don't know about it being broken but it sounds brusied to me. try putting ice on it for 20 minutes take it off and do it again. hope that helped(:



you would know its sprined when it hurtss when u move it and if it swelled up. it could be broken better get it checked by a doctor or it could be a dislocated bone



Come round to my house. I'll be able to tell you if you've got any broken bones by the time you leave.




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