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I broke a small bone in my wrist a few weeks ago. The doctor said it was the scaphoid bone near the base of my thumb. She gave me a choice between having a cast or surgery, and I chose the cast. Now I'm hearing about the stiffness and muscular problems people have after their casts come off. Did I make the wrong choice?
I fractured the scaphoid bone near the base of my thumb and need to get back to work right away. My doctor says I can either have surgery or a cast. What's my best bet?
I fractured the scaphoid bone near the base of my thumb, and the doctor wants to put a cast on it. Meanwhile, I'm having flashbacks to the cast I seemed to have worn forever in the second grade. Is there anything faster than this prehistoric treatment?
In order to get relief from the severe pain in my wrist, my doctor says I need to have surgery to shorten the ulna bone near my wrist. The doctor says my smoking will prevent the surgery from doing any good. I think he's just trying to get me to quit. Will smoking make the surgery worthless?
I've heard that smoking makes it harder to heal from certain types of surgery, such as spine surgery. Does smoking also affect wrist surgery?
Some of my snowboarding magazines say that using wrist braces lowers the chance of a wrist injury. Is this true?
Will wearing a wrist brace when I snowboard keep me from spraining my wrist?
A snowboarding magazine had an article stating that wrist braces lower the chances of wrist injury. Would a hard brace work better than a soft one?
The idea of snowboarding intrigues me, but I've heard wrist injuries are common. As I get started, what should I know to avoid injuring my wrists?
I get hand and shoulder pain that becomes so intense that even heavy painkillers don't seem to help. About every three weeks, the pain changes to a dull ache with numbness and tingling. Then the intense pain returns. Could this problem be from carpal tunnel syndrome?
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