Top 5 Mistakes to AVOID after a Wrist Fracture or Injury
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- This video is all about the Top 5 Mistakes to AVOID after a Wrist Fracture, Wrist Surgery, or any Wrist Injury. These 5 mistakes are VERY common but they can greatly impact your wrist fracture recovery and negatively effect your mobility and function.
Learn what to expect and mistakes to avoid after a wrist fracture or wrist injury to get on the road to feeling better and healing faster!
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Timeframe:
00:00 Top 5 Mistakes to AVOID after a Wrist Fracture or Injury
00:28 Mistake #1- Too AFRAID to Move
01:46 Mistake #2- Waiting for Decreased Swelling in the Wrist
02:43 Mistake #3- Not Communicating with your Doctor or Healthcare Provider
04:17 Mistake #4- Not Going to Therapy
06:18 Mistake #5- Stop Exercising, Being Active, or Participating in your Favorite Hobbies
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This video is for educational and demonstration purposes only and is not to be used as a replacement for seeking medical advice or treatment of your condition. Virtual Hand Care, or its members, do not offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult with your doctor or healthcare provider before starting any exercise program. Please know that performing any exercise or program is solely at your own risk.
Here are a few of my Top 5 Mistakes to AVOID after a Wrist Fracture or Injury! 🙌 Please let me know in the comments below if these tips helped you. Don't forget to LIKE and SUBSCRIBE so I can see all your COMMENTS. 🙏
Mam.. I have a wrist fracture... I have gone through a 45 days plaster on my hand... After that i feel good enough to do some light work with my hand.. But after a week of removing that plaster.. I have gone through x-ray.. But that broken bone did not join...what should i do next?
Mam please help
@@subhankarsaha84 😭😭 y u say mam pls help 😂💀💀
@Steve Pagani BC what you are describing is NOT the norm. I've seen thousands of wrist fractures over the past 19 years. This sounds like you need a 2nd opinion but I am sure there is a lot more to this.
Wish I had seen this 6 weeks ago. Just had my cast off an everything is frozen stiff. I am doing physiotherapy with great therapist but is very painful process as we have to break all the scar tissue that formed UGH😢I had surgery.
Who else is watching this with a broken wrist.
😢
I am freaking out ... Cast was too tight and high up my fingers couldn't move them at all. Dr insisted on 4 weeks with the cast. Cast came off 3 days ago and I can't move any of my wrist fingers or rotate my arm. Excruciating pain. I knew I should've had the cast cut off the first week.
@@drcarriemills8772you should definitely sue
I get my cast next week 😢 fractured my left elbow and wrist 2 weeks ago
I fell on ice one month ago and fractured my wrist, my dominant arm. I got a closed reduction on the break and was casted. I’ve had this cast for one month now. Wearing a cast on my arm has made me very anxious. The cast is too tight and uncomfortable. I’m due to get my cast off in nine days, and then wear a brace, I cannot wait to get this cast off my arm. Having so much trouble sleeping at night. I am so miserable.
Having your right hand impaired when you are right handed is a unique torture. All the bad people in the world should have to experience it!!! I can’t even put my hair in a ponytail by myself. Writing with my left hand takes forever. My sympathies to all of us who can’t use our dominant hand. 😢😮
Absolutely!
Badly broke my right wrist on Sunday 10/15/23 and I can't even pick up a cup with my left due to bruising there too - Feeling so hamstrung! :(
Totally relate. I am a 72 year old right handed woman and shattered the radius and broke the ulna in August. Was told only to pick up a half of a cup of coffee. Very frustrating. Just starting strengthening exercises. BUT the exercise so helpful. Not helpful is being told “at your age” everything will take longer. So I am trying very hard to prove that wrong. Hopefully these videos will be a big help.
I cant roll my weed or play fort night
I broke my left wrist and am left handed. I concur 😢😢😢
Shout out to all of us who broke our wrists✅😭😅 it gets better
EDIT: Wrist has been fully healed for over 6 months now. IT GOT BETTER. It's okay to feel slightly hopeless and afraid at times but I found solace and peace in comment sections and videos such as these. Just take it ONE day at a time and before you know it you are back to normal.
You are right! It does get better!
This isn't my first rodeo... now it's my left hand. I train wayyy too hard. I'm just so gentle with my body 😅😅😅
I hope so. Just took off my cast yesterday and my hand seems frozen in place.
Gave me hope, Terry from Australia
I broke mine twice
All these wrist fractures..... I feel like we're a big family😁
At least ya'll have something in common. 🙏💚
Comforting to know I’m not alone. Thank you so much for all of your helpful videos. Fell 12/6 - first place took X-rays and said “no fractures” then I went to orthopedic doctor on 12/16 when I couldn’t handle pain anymore. Fracture in ulna. Having such trouble sleeping!
Now I don't feel alone.
Hey sup fam
Right?!?
This is helpful information because my right wrist is broken. I'm also hoping for a speedy recovery for everyone who has a broken bone.
SAME CASE FOR ME
Yes, having your dominant wrist broken is truly bad.. but... having both wrists broken at the same time is worse. Ugh. Thats what I have. One had 5 fractures and required a plate and screws... the other luckily was simply broken without the need for surgery. It took 12 days until I could get the surgery since it happened right before the Christmas holidays. Im 3 weeks post op and working very hard to regain some use in my fingers and wrist with my removable cast on my surgical wrist. Im an avid golfer and want so very bad to get back to the golf course. Im started PT a few days ago and will do so for a couple of months or so. Im also looking for helpful videos to assist me in my healing. My motivation to get back to golfing is pushing me to work hard on regaining the use of my wrists. Good luck to all who have been affected by a broken wrist... or worse yet... both wrists...
Wow both! How did that happen ? If you don’t mind me asking….😢
Hope & pray your recovery is speedy and coming along better than when you first wrote this message. ❤️🩹
@@carolinallanos1399 Im 12 weeks out from original fall causing 2 broken wrists... and 10 weeks post op on the one wrist that got a plate and 9 screws. It has been a difficult road but things are certainly improving. I still am in twice weekly OT to try to regain function. Got a few issues but MD feels most tend to resolve by 6 months or so. He said its likely that I will lose about 25% of my ROM. So how did I break them both? The short version of the story is my neighbor's dog charged me in the street in front of my home. I tried to back up quickly to get away from the dog but stumbled backwards landing on my wrists. I tried to get up quickly so the dog wouldn't chew on my neck. When I pushed up, I knew immediately that my wrists were broken. This all happened on Christmas Eve Eve. Its been a few very rough months but things are getting better now.
That hand over the screen transition was flawless
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I came to the comments just for you man Ik someone would feel my pain😭😭😭
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This was a great place to start, yes my Dr said time for therapy, but the first appointment I could get is 10 days out, I do not want to wait.
I had a radial fracture that resulted in surgery and a metal plate . I do pottery for a living and I am 70 , never the less I do not have time to not be moving forward. So happy this video is here
You are absolutely right on the mistakes. Thank you 😊 I’m currently recovering from wrist strain 😔 but feeling confident your videos will educate me. 👍🏼🌸🌷
I am nearly 59. Female. Slipped and fell at a gas station. I have bilateral distal radial and ulnar styloid process fractured. As they are displaced I am having orif to both on Dec9. Injury was dec1. Horrible pain. Can’t wait to get healing!!!
Very well said! What this lady is suggesting is that understanding your body is everything! When you have a traumatic experience such as, breaking a bone or loss of function too a limb that you are not used too losing function of, you're first reaction is to not move that limb until it has healed. The only way for that limb to repair itself is by learning to use the muscles surrounded it again. By letting the injury seize and contract without any input for long periods of time, you will only immobilize that limb even more. That's not saying that if it is very painful, then carry on! You should never over do it but at the same time, do not let that limb stay stagnant for too long! This lady explains it better than I ever could, so many thanks too her for looking out for us and sharing this information! The true heroes never wear capes... and for some reason, everyone loves capes until their life depends on it! Thank you so much!👍How the f**k is it that our taxes don't support people like you, but instead go to the 1% that suck everything beautiful out of this planet dry, I will never understand! A good deed wasted at the hands of corporate greed! There's so many beautiful minds that will switch off if money didn't wake them up every morning! It's a sad dying world full of greedy human parasites! Money controls our pathetic existence!
"The only way for that limb to repair itself is by learning to use the muscles surrounded it again." You are spot on!! 🙌
Thank you so much for your very informative video. It helps me a lot in my early recovery from a wrist injury 2 months ago.
Broke my left wrist yesterday ~ THANKS 👍👍✨✨✨
Now how is it brother
Same here .. I fell down the stairs last night after I heard a cat fight
@@Stressrelief69 ~ had to have a plate put in ....thanks
@@thegratefulmosaic7555 ~ Get Well SOON
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Thank you. I recently found your channel and I cannot put in words how helpful some of your videos are in my recovery process. Typing this with my other hand even if it's super slow and frustrating to tell you how grateful I feel.
Hope you are doing well . Great video
Yes, this is very helpful. Your enthusiastic tone of voice & positive influential verbiage I find fascinating. Thank you!
This was a very helpful video. Thank you. I wish I watched it a few weeks ago earlier in my recovery post-surgery!
Lucky for me i found your channel because i am now suffering from a recent injury in my right hand and in need of such expert tutorials or lessons like this 😃
Thanks
You helped me a lot during this painful moment
Most helpful - thank you for posting
Thanks for sharing you wisdom with these videos Michelle. I’m two weeks ahead on my healing because of you. You are a MUCH appreciated healing angel :)
How kind of you! Sending you strength as you continue on your path of healing. 🙌🙏
Thank you for sharing your expertise. Very helpful info.!
Lot of thanks for such an excellent advice.
Thank you so much. I found this very helpful. 💜
very helpful. thank you, and thanks for mentioning the importance of mental health for healing
Thank you so much! I wish I had seen this sooner. Wish the ortho PA I saw had seen it too. My cast was too tight and too high up my hand. I was told about a few finger flexing exercises by friends. Having OT now and hoping to make up for what I lost. Swelling and pain after two months continues - your video is confirming and reassuring as I've been concerned whether this is normal. Thank you again!
Thank you very much! It was very helpful!
🙏🙏🙏🙏
So helpful thank you so much ❤🙏
I'm a bass guitar player, was in a cast for an right ulna nightstick fracture.. Started in a long arm cast.. Moved to a short arm cast.. I played bass the entire time while in a cast.. It definitely helped in my healing.
I broke my radius and played video games all day after the operation. It helped as well!
How are your wrists now?
@@francotumegomez9393 fr..
That makes me feel good because thats why i avoided getting it looked at lol
This video Will certainly help me as my wrist fractured and having cast.
Thank you very, very much for posting this video. I'm finding it really helpful. Especially the part about being afraid to move. I really needed that little boost of confidence. Also the physical therapy thing- super helpful. And all of it! I haven't quite listened to the last one yet. This is really helpful.
5 really important things to do. Very positive approach.
Really helpful - thank you !
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent advice
Yes I totally agree with you.
I am passing through the same phase
Thank you for the invaluable advice
You are so welcome!
Your comments about therapy are interesting and your videos are great. I had a distal radius fracture, without displacement, six weeks ago.After my cast came off (this week), my doctor told me I should wait three more weeks before starting therapy. I was not OK with that so I asked him for the prescription-- so that I could start as soon as possible. Doctor also didn't recommend exercises with my fingers while the cast was on; but of course it hurt much more then and I was afraid of disturbing the healing. I'd like to know whether it's OK to go without the brace during the day, when I'm home. You said somewhere that we would wear the brace 15 hours a day, so perhaps that means only at night and when I leave the house.
Thank you for video on this toic as a patient i get to understand all that is happening to my fractured hand
Thank you
Great tips. Thank you.
Thanks so much for this video
Thank you so much for all info. I fell down stairs few issues and broke wrist bad , 4 wires in due to come out 2 weeks its been. very painful . You really have educated me on swelling fingers and movement. my fingers are so big . Can not wait to start my swimming when healed when wires out.
Very helpful video. Thank you so much
Thanku … it was a all round complete talk..
Diction clear n pleasing
great information.
Thank you for these videos! Very helpful on my journey to full recovery from a radius break and shattered radial head! Surgery and plate placed in wrist and titanium replacement for the radial head!
Does it recover completely .I have also got surgery. After how many day it will recover as it was
Thank you so much for the videos. Just found them 5 days after my wrist fracture. Happy to start moving!
Me too, now also on day 5 😁
Just broke both radius and ulna from a fall. Will be checking out your videos to make sure I do things properly. :)
Thank you, thank you, thank you
Thanks very useful information
Really appreciate your guidance for my wrist. Recent surgery. 10 days out.
I can hug you. Thank you so much. Just had surgery today
Thank you once again your video has helped me so much after falling and breaking my left wrist your advice is priceless x🙏🏻x
How's your wrist now?
Thank You... so much
Very useful thank you so much ❤
It's really useful info, thanks
wow thank you so much! i fractured a growth plate in my wrist last week!
OMG so useful info im 2 weeks post op on my wrist its a nice layout to my recovery.
Excellent video, exercises and therapy are very important
Thank you! I agree!
Definitely agreed, one must try to move the fingers, shoulder and arm which is not the Brien wrist, otherwise the other parts become very stiff and the swelling take longer time to recover.
Very informative video…..I think my cast was placed too high on hand which hindered hand mobility once cast was removed…wish I had seen your video sooner…now working my way back with scheduled therapy and home exercises…
Thank you so much for this very helpful video! You mentioned several reasons why folks don't get therapy, my reason is definitely financial. I be happy to follow you & your exercise "class" for the duration of my healing process. Thanks again
You are welcome! And you've got me thinking about ways to offer exercise 'classes'!
@@VirtualHandCare I would love to follow your physical therapy videos if you have any😀👍
Very useful. Thanks. Just broken my scaphoid and still unsure of how much can move the thumb. It's all a nightmare!
Hi Michelle..I have just found your channel. I fractured my wrist 6 days ago..I currently have a back slab (I'm in the UK, so I'm not sure the US do the same thing) cast on, which comes up to my middle knuckles. So movement is very limited. This is being changed this week. I am so glad I found your video as I will definitely be asking for a cast that fits. Thank you. I look forward to using your resources in my recovery. X
Thanks for the info I recently fractured my wrist
Terrific video telling patients some basic things to do during healing. I will add that the most common problem I see is a surgeon is not having that fracture fixed when it is displaced enough that will later limit function greatly the newer techniques, allow for a simple outpatient procedure that will allow much faster recovery since the wrist fracture is now stabilized. Collaboration with our valued therapy colleagues is critical as mentioned in this very good video
Thank you Dr. Badia for bringing awareness to this common problem. You are right, there is a lot of benefit to fixation of even the mildly displaced fx you mentioned. The daily struggle with post traumatic pain and swelling, loss of motion, numbness/tingling, months of stiff fingers, and more can be minimized.
It was so helpful
These videos are very good thank you
Thanks!
Thankyou I am in temp cast could not see ortho for a week. i am a very active person and have been water walking in a pool and its felt great. Im a person who needs exercise for my brain to work . felt a little guilty but have not had substantial pain at all SWELLING ONLY IN MORNING.3 more days to see ortho .This is reassuring
going thru my six weeks after a radial styloid and scaphoid fracture.. listen to her!!
Thank you very much mam...
Broke four metacarpal bones in my hand, distal radius, and ulnar in my wrist on August 9th. Got caught up in hazard tape while cycling by a construction site. Had a plate and pins placed at HSS. Pins were removed two weeks ago and will have the plate swapped out for a smaller one by December. PT twice a week. Keep up the good fight!
Thanks for the information. Could you possibly do a vid on mistakes after wrist is healed? (With it being sore and swollen)
Sure! I can definitely do one for after it is healed!
@@VirtualHandCare 🤗 thank you can’t wait
Thank you😮
Thank you
You have nailed it Michelle. Every word of what you said in this video is so true. You have totally cleared my doubts, fear, and anxiety. I am recovering from radius/ulna fracture above the wrist. I am about to begin physiotherapy sessions.
Thank you! Wishing you lots of strength during your recovery. 🙏
THX HEAPS
i just broke my wrist last week. Really whats hurt even more than my wrist is most of the rest of my body: I fell down most of a flight of concrete steps. so ive basically been feeling like i got hit by a bus. Saw the Ortho Doc for the first time yesterday and she said what i was afraid of, :You DEFINITELY need surgery:😫anyway I'm worried about how much independence i can maintain over the next 3 or more months. doing things one handed is so hard as you all well know. I dont have a husband and my daughter has done what she can but shes got her own stresses and responsibilities. Any suggestions for resources about living day to day with a broken wrist?
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I am a week out from my wrist surgery. It has been such a painful recovery.
First 2 weeks are a killer. Good luck! Im 6 weeks post surgery and only just now feeling better with pain, movement etc
@@milZ1 I can’t wait to start feeling better. I still haven’t got much movement yet.
@@jacqueb1441 me too! My supination is 5 degrees which is pretty alarming apparently.
@@milZ1 went back to the doctor for follow up X-rays. Apparently a screw has shifted into my joint so no may have to go back to surgery.
Move everything that you can, as much as you can, as often as you can.
wonderful video
Hello! Thanks for the video and info! I am having cast for a week now on my left wrist. I am living alone and I have to do all me other activities day today activities and my left hand gets moving during the activities. Is it okay if my left in this kind of moving or do I have to control it and keep it immobilised completely?
I fell hard on ice on concrete on March 7th and shattered my wrist and had surgery on the 15th to put in a locking plate. My cast doesn't come off until the 27th but I have been moving and exercising my thumb and fingers. The thumb has less movement because the cast is in the way and my thumb is very sore and everything is still fairly swollen. I'm looking forward to going to physical therapy just as soon as this cast comes off. I've been looking at some of your videos for exercises that I can do now and for when the cast comes off.
Thank you for this video, ive been out of cast for a few days, only had it on only two weeks as i had surgery for plate and screws and he sad to slowly get moving straitght away. ive been referred for the therapy but know it may take a while, so have benn doing very gentle strecthing/rubbing/heat exercises on my own. I never do anything to PAIN, but just that very slight ache sensation, and then hold it there while gently massaging. Sound about right?
Had a non displaced distal radius fracture 7 weeks ago just got my cast off yesterday. Am going to do home exercises for 6-8 weeks. See a physio in between because I'm dieing to get back into weight lifting! It's also my non dominant hand.
I am an athlete and am doing everything you suggest. I am learning to do things differently. Tomorrow it will be one week. I started on day two exercises for my fingers. I ride my indoor trainer Waiting on the treadmill because it was a treadmill fall where I broke my wrist
😂😂😂😂
Did your wrist come back?
Thank you for an informative video it was very thorough throughout what not to do. I was involved in a car collision recently and who would have known under California’s law to have both hands on the wheel to be a risk to my wrist bone. Stay safe everyone and drive safe please!
You are an awesome person thank you for sharing this video
I had a fracture 3wks before and advised for 3wks ahead for.plaster.I feel pain between elbow wrist muscles and also at elbow muscles what can be the reason?
Very helpful I broke my wrist last Saturday.
I just saw your video, I hope someone can answer this for me. I broke my wrist a month ago. Had surgery 2 days later to realign a dislocation and have pins installed. I'm on my 3rd cast since surgery. I had my 2nd cast replaced because it was pressing? on the nerves, now with the third cast, the same thing seems to be happening again. Regardless of what's going on, if I accidentally move my arm wrong, it feels like it is being ripped open. I'm actually not sure how I'm moving it wrong. Should I go back to have my cast replaced yet again? Or is this a common problem with having pins in the wrist?
Fantastic video. Thank you. Please can you do a video about sleep positions in a full arm cast for a wrist fracture. I'm finding it very challenging indeed.
You are welcome. That is a great idea for a video! I'll put that on my list. But for now the long pillows often used for pregnant women are very helpful!
Thank you so much for the wonderful lessons! My name is Abbey from the Philippines
thank you so much for the info and the tips for recovery.i am 2 days into recovery from a motor scooter accident and i am 73 years old and i don't have a car.
guess every day is gonna be leg day for me now🗿
Thank you so much mam this Video really helps me to recover from my wrist radius fracture I really afraid to move my hands because of this swelling Thank🫂you so much for this valuable information love from India ; Kerala 🙏🏻
Hello- what is your experience how long it takes after cast removal? 6 weeks after scaphoid fracture. Got my cast of 2 days ago and I am very worried because it is so stiff and painful still .. MRI and x ray is fine
It's helpful 😄
Had wrist fracture 3months ago now having pain in shoulder . suggest some exercise
Thankyou love ❤️
Any time!
Fractured mine yesterday and wanna make sure it grows back perfectly as it was before I also wanna make sure I don’t mess up the growing process
Same
Hi,
Broke my wrist 5 months back and had surgery . Watched your all videos during the period in cast and did the exercise that you recommended after cast removal. Dipped my hand in hot and cold water simultaneously.Now it's totally okay.Thanks a lot . Your video has been of great help 🙂
How do you simultaneously dip your hand in hot and cold water ?
simultaneously?
Contrast baths, 30 seconds warm water then 30 seconds cool water. I have a double kitchen sink layout so did it there. Used an instant read thermometer to get the cool water about 60 degrees.
How long did it take after cast removal? Thank you
@@David-rh2fe 3 months
I was in a car accident and now I have to get surgery found this video after another video I watched and this is very helpful
Thanks