Do i have a bone bruise or a fracture?
PLEASE HELP!!!..i need to know if i need xrays by tomorrow..so anyways heres what happened...last night at church i was walking in the gym and my friend pushed me and i fell onto the bleachers.i landed on my mid section of my forearm (i hit the ulna) and it hurt at the time and i kinda just shook it off.well today i woke up and had small to moderate sized swelling on my arm,i noticed it hurt to the touch.well a little while later the swelling started getting a little bigger and now it just hurts when its sitting there not moving,i just picked up my laptop and it hurt pretty bad,it also hurts to type,my hand also gets tingly every now and then..so i just need to know what yall think it is...bone bruise or a fracture..and should i get xrays?...please feel free to reccomend anything else but do it quick because i need to know what to do by tomorrow..thanks
Is the top of my hand and wrist bruised, fractured or broken?
First, stop the heat, you never want to use heat on something that might be broken. 2nd, you could have done many different kinds of damage to your hand, as your hands and feet contain half the bones in your body. The shooting pain sounds like signs of a break to me, but here is an extremely easy test to do to find out if it's broken. Reach around the back of your neck with your good hand and feel for the 7th cervical vertebrae, otherwise known as the "knobby bone we all have at the base of our neck". Push on this and see if you feel any pain. 9 times out of 10 this area will be very sore when you have a broken bone anywhere on the body. Due to the neural pathways of the human body, broken bones make this area extremely tender to the touch and you will be able to know immediately. I found this out firsthand and had it verified by my instructor when I broke 4 bones in my foot and was having trouble sleeping due to pressure on C7 when I would lay on my back. If this area is sore, you should go get an x-ray done. I know you don't have insurance, but all the hospital can do is bill you, they can't refuse to treat you, and most hospitals will accept payments of as low as 5 dollars a month if that's all you can pay, just as long as you pay something.
Forearm bone bruise or fracture?
I am a rock climber. Last night I was doing a dynamic leap from one set of holds to another and I slammed my forearm into another large hold. It hurt pretty badly at the time and I decided to call it a day. The pain passed within 45 minutes and didn't bug me unil I woke up this morning. Today I can feel a lump like a bone contusion in the area I hit plus if I put any pressure on the bone in the exact spot I hit it's dizzyingly painful. It kinda hurts to put my hand in a fist and turn my arm. Other than that it's just kinda achy. I'm just worried it might be fractured because of the point tenderness on the bone. Thoughts?
Fracture to 2nd metacarpal?
I don't believe that it is broken but suffering from a strong bone bruise. That will cause swelling and intense pain that will last for days. To be sure an x-ray will confirm the presence or absence of a fracture. If it is fractured it will be splinted. Try dipping your hand into a bowl of ice water. Keep the hand in there for fifteen to twenty minutes. While in the water keep moving the fingers. This should remove any lingering swelling and decrease pain. the sharp pain in the shoulder maybe due to when the hand was struck the first instinct was to forcibly remove the arm and in so doing pulled a muscle. Again if in a few days there is no improvement then see a doctor or if you want an immediate answer see one now.
How long does it take for hand bruises to heal? Could it be more than a bruise but less than a fracture?
A week ago my brother and I fought, he hit me in the shin and left it swollen & bruised and I punched him full force on his shin (not where I was aiming) and my hand got a little swollen and slightly bruised. My leg has almost healed completely just a little tender and my hand isn’t swollen nor bruised anymore but it hurts when I touch it with a little pressure or even when I do certain movements. The pain is by the knuckle by the pinky to where my wrist bone is. Just that outer area. Could I have injured it bad like a bone bruise or even a fracture? How long would it take for it to heal?
Can a bone be broken or fractured even if the skin around the injury is not bruised or discolored?
Probably more often than not. Depending on which bone is broken and how it was broken. When I was in elementary school I fell while playing jump rope in a neighbor's yar. I slipped and fell back landing all my weight on my right hand. Mom got an ace bandage from another neighbor and sent to school the next day. Walking home for lunch I told my friend the ace bandage was killing me. She said so take it off. I did and it blew up 3–4 times normal. Mom finally took me to the doctor who sent me for x-rays. They had to scotch tape my hand down to get the X-ray. My my hand was wrapped in a fist for 6 weeks . Never any brushing but after being wrapped for 6 weeks very stinky skin.
Scaphoid & Triquetrum bone contusion (bruising)? help please?
Hello, I'm 37 and 2 months ago I had a skateboard accident falling on my right outstretched hand. Swelling and bruising was there for a few days thinking maybe its just a wrist sprain. There was sharp pain there in the wrist somewhere in the scaphoid area. I went for an xray 1 week after the accident and nothing showed up. The Docs said its just a sprain and wrest it. 4 weeks went on and the pain was just the same. I went for another follow up xray and guess what nothing !!! again. The pain is still there, I have restricted movement and cannot do push-ups cannot surf, lift anything etc. I went to a special physio aorganizedanised an MRI for me. Heres the readings.. Findings: Bony contusion is seen to involve the distal pole of the scaphoid dorsolateral margin with some irregularity of the cortex in this region consistent with minor infraction. There is further bony contusion involving the triquetrum dorsally with a small depressed cortical fracture of the dorsal margin present. There is an associated proximal carpal joint effusion. There is minor contusion of the distal radius involving the volar surface. There is some oedema in relation to the scaphoid insertion of the extrinsic dorsal scapholunate triquetral ligament. I have seen 2 doctors & 1 Physio: First doctor 60 years old said. Its just a bone bruise should be good within a few weeks, wear a wrist guard limit the use. Second doctor another 65 year old said, wearing the the guard was a joke and just to keep going as normal and take pain killers, took all this for a joke, could understand why I even got an MRI for this. I walked out in disbelief and discouraged with our medical experts. The only person to take me seriously was my physio therapist who is away for another 2 weeks for xmas break. I have been doing extensive research on the net with this problem trying to find out what this all means and what is the corrective measures and re-abilitation for this. Any help would be much appreciated. Thankyou Brace or no brace? Its been 2 months and the pain still the same. I have little range with my wrist as far as pulling back.
Supplements and vitamins to help assist healing of bone bruise?
What are some good supplements out there I can buy to help my hands bone bruise heal , I have read alot but I could use some real peoples opinions , I hear super cissuis rx by USP labs and glucosamine -chondroitin will help , how about creatine or protein or hyaluronic acid or BCAAs? Any suggestions I do know doc knows best but sometimes supps assist as well in a healing process , I am following docs orders resting , icing ect but I just want to speed it up like HGH does for athletes haha except nothing illegal and won't expect those results just something to assist he said there's a few things and to look around obviously calcium but anything else? please I really could use help here I need to get healthy asap every second counts even if I get this supp and it only heals 1 day earlier I am fine with that thanks