Thread: Scaphoid fracture

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I healed up but it took one surgery and 9 months in a cast.

Seems to be a lot of these injuries, lately.

Good luck and vibes!

Originally Posted by JBird

I healed up but it took one surgery and 9 months in a cast.

I've had the cast on for less than a week and I already hate it.

Originally Posted by AKbruin

Any "my scaphoid healed quickly and properly" stories?

I broke mine at the end of last September (on the good side where there's a bit more blood flow). 8 weeks out I was skiing with poles. Probably would have healed a little quicker, but I went with the brace instead of the cast.

Bit strange when it hurt on my first bike ride in April. However, the soreness was gone the next time out.

Broke mine about 8 years ago. X-ray didn't show it but the doc put it in a cast anyway and I'm glad he did since the X-ray after cast removal showed the break. I'd say it took 2 years for it to be pain-free, but with that said it only hurt when I screwed up (for example, picking a bad line in a rock garden on the bike). Normally it didn't hurt much at all, even right after the 6 weeks in a cast. Never notice it now.

^^^Good to hear. Thanks guys.

I didn't add, I really have no problems once I healed. I even learned how to do certain things left handed. Good times, Good times.

Broke my left scaphoid yesterday biking to work. Damn Chicago paths have too many potholes to possibly avoid them all. Honestly the way I fell I'm lucky to have only broken one thing.

In an intense thumb spica until the abrasions heal, then I'm in a cast for 6-8 weeks unless I end up needing surgery. Lucky to have broken the well-vascularized side.

Just hoping to be up and running for skiing come January.

Okay, so bumping this old thread. Over a month ago, I pre-released at a pretty good pace and fell hard. Skied the rest of the day no problems. Waited 3 weeks and it was feeling good (no pain during my daily routine), so I went rock climbing in the gym. Was planning to take it easy, but it felt good, so I did a few V4 onsights, etc. Little more pain with the harder routes, but nothing particularly concerning. Was pretty sore the next day. That was a week ago, and it's still kinda sore. I think I just sprained a ligament, but reading this thread makes me I'm worried about a scaphoid fracture. Do I need to make an appointment with a hand surgeon or sports-medicine doc? Or just get an x-ray at a walk-in clinic. I've had it examined by both a PT and CHT, and neither are super concerned about it, but I've been burned by that in the past (hip labral tear went undiagnosed for four years).

Thoughts?

Editing this to add that I have no tenderness in my anatomic snuffbox. The pain is slightly more ulnar than that. I'm hoping slightly ligament sprain, like maybe scaphoid-trapezoid or maybe lunate-capitate. Anyway, made an appointment with a hand guy. Takes two weeks to get in, unfortunately.

Disclosure - riddled with ACL/meniscus recovery drugs, so I didn't read back through everything BUT....

I did have a scaphoid fracture that was NOT found via x-ray and the PT/Trainer (happend playing lax) and ortho doc were not concerned for awhile. Stayed "functional" for a bit, but eventually once I started getting some shooting pain with hitting golf balls I went back to the Doc.

X-ray was negative, and they didn't want to MRI, but I insisted. That ended up finding the problem (along with the necrosis issue). Long story from that point trying to avoid surgery, but basically ended up getting surgery to get blood in there and some titanium.

I highly recommend getting an MRI done if thats at all possible. So much stuff is interrelated in there (plus all your day to day use) it can be really hard to tell what the issues are based on some "poking" and X-rays. I had my hand in various forms of casts, pain, and splints for nearly a year before I got the stuff figured out, when an early MRI could've kept me from the necrosis stuff & got me back to normal faster w/ proper treatment.

Wrist is starting to hurt pretty badly. Tenderness in snuffbox, etc. X-rays tomorrow but couldn't get in with the doc until next Thursday. After taking three years off of skiing for injuries, this was entirely unnecessary.

Fuck everything.

Fractured both of my Scaphoids three weeks ago. The fractures aren't too bad, and are luckily towards the top of the bone. I have two removable, waterproof braces with thumb spicas that I honestly might be taking off too much. I take them off after I shower so that I can set them on a table and dry them with two blow dryers, and the doctor didn't really say that I could take them off. Since the fractures aren't terrible and are towards the top of the bone, do you think that they'll still heal properly? Am I slowing my healing time by removing my casts?

Add me to the scaphoid club. I guess I should feel lucky as my fracture is on the "good" end and doc says no surgery. Still don't like being handed a 6-10 week sentence tho.

Damn beer league races...

This bone is a nightmare. I broke mine about 10 years ago playing high school football. Didn't get the xray and surgery until about 6 months later. The bone healed but I am still having a lot of problems. It seems to get worse every year and the doctors can't really tell me whats going on. Can't lift weights, play tennis or even really volleyball at this point. I'm hesitant to even wash dishes because I know I'll have to deal with swelling and inflammation for the rest of the day. Sucks because I am only 27 and this is preventing me from doing 80% of things that I used to love doing.
X-Rays are inconclusive so the doctors are only really saying its probably arthritis but it hurts so bad I am almost sure it is something more. I don't really know where the hell to go at this point except to yet another doctor for another opinion. Has anyone had any similar complications after the non-union surgery?

As a follow up to my 2010 posts, I think I had my cast on for 6-8 weeks. It felt stiff for the first week or two after the cast came off, but seems to have healed up completely. I haven't had any problems since then. In fact, I'm not even sure which wrist it was that I broke.