My wife tripped over a kindergärtner and fell down a couple of weeks ago and broke her wrist. It looked like she might be able to get away with just having a cast until we went to see the bone doctor. Now surgery to install a small plate to hold the bones in alignment becomes a viable option. The two advantages to having surgery were that she could get by with a smaller cast because the plate would be doing most of the alignment work, and there was a possibility that without the plate she would encounter some pain when she turned her wrist. If she was 20 years older, they wouldn't recommend the surgery. So we went ahead and got it done. Picked her up from work at 2PM and were home by 9PM. Work was done at the clinic, not the hospital. The worst part was they used a nerve block on her arm which meant is was virtually dead for 24 hours. There was no pain, but she was also unable to control her arm. Left alone it would just hang by her side.
A little info about wrist fractures:
A Colles' fracture -- or distal radius fracture -- is often called a
''broken wrist.'' Technically, it's a break in the larger of the two
bones in your forearm. The bone breaks on the lower end, close to where
it connects to the bones of the hand on the thumb side of the wrist.
Colles' fractures
are very common; they're the most frequently broken bone in the arm. In
the United States, one out of every 10 broken bones is a broken wrist. - WebMD
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