You will not be insured to drive whilst you are wearing a splint. It can be worn at night and removed for washing and dressing. This injury is initially treated simply in a wrist splint for 2 weeks to help reduce your pain. Injury to this bone can occur after a heavy fall on an outstretched hand but it is not always clear on initial x-rays whether it is broken or not. The scaphoid is a small bone in the wrist located on the thumb side of your hand.
However, we have not been able to exclude that you have sustained a scaphoid fracture. What is a suspected scaphoid fracture?įollowing a consultant review of your notes and x-rays it is likely that you have a wrist sprain as no definite fracture has been identified. Contact details are available at the end of this leaflet. If after reading it, you have any concerns or require further explanation, please do not hesitate to contact the fracture clinic team. We understand you may not have seen a clinician face to face in fracture clinic however, most of your questions should be answered by this leaflet. This leaflet has been produced to give you general information about your injury. Need some help choosing a language? Please refer to Browsealoud Supported Voices and Languages. You can translate this page by using the headphones button (bottom left) and then select the globe to change the language of the page.
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