broken scaphoid
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rustyvasectomy
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broke it doing campus lunges on the underside of a stair well after taking 15 shots of tequila. went to the hospital four days after it happened to get an x ray. now im in a splint and going to the hand specialist on tuesday. its totaly broken in half but they said it was sitting in the correct position so surgery is probably not needed.
i was just wondering if anyone has broken it and has had a good recovery and is now cranking again. im OK with not climbing for 8 weeks or whatever till it heals, just wanted to know if it was possible to crank hard again afterwards
i was just wondering if anyone has broken it and has had a good recovery and is now cranking again. im OK with not climbing for 8 weeks or whatever till it heals, just wanted to know if it was possible to crank hard again afterwards
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crusty-
as you have probably heard, scaphoid fractures are very common (the most common wrist bone fracture). typically occurs with falls on out stretched hand- axial loading of the extended arm with the force driving on to the palm driving the scaphoid into the distal radius. The blood supply is tenuous to the proximal half of the scaphoid. The artery that irrigates the bone enters it from the distal aspect and supplies the proximal half in a retrograde fashion. When the scaphoid is cracked in half that retrograde supply is interrupted and unless there is a good apposition (bone edge re approximated to bone edge) the proximal half can die (osteo necrosis).
To answer you question, I am sure of that there are a shit ton of boulders out there who have tossed off a pebble and had this injury given how many people partake of a sport where falling and hitting the ground is standard operating procedure. I happen to know of one - Flyin Brian McCray had this very injury from bouldering and actually had to have surgery to screw the two halves back together. He was out for a year or better. It was during this time that Jeff Moll snaked the routes that he had drilled (on lead) "Subman" and also "Golden Touch" (not drilled on lead). Jeff, in his defense, didn't know the difference between right and wrong, so he did what folks in his position do- he did what made him happy.
So, there you have it. I hope you don't need surgery. Have close follow up with a hand surgeon and catch the compromised blood flow to the proximal half early before it is too late. What happens if you miss it and the half on the scaphoid dies. It will need to be excised and you will more than likely loose prehension of the thumb (the ability of the thumb to do its thing- move across the palm and grip things). This a a horribly disabling injury. With early intervention by a good hand guy you will most likely avoid this even in the worst case scenario.
as you have probably heard, scaphoid fractures are very common (the most common wrist bone fracture). typically occurs with falls on out stretched hand- axial loading of the extended arm with the force driving on to the palm driving the scaphoid into the distal radius. The blood supply is tenuous to the proximal half of the scaphoid. The artery that irrigates the bone enters it from the distal aspect and supplies the proximal half in a retrograde fashion. When the scaphoid is cracked in half that retrograde supply is interrupted and unless there is a good apposition (bone edge re approximated to bone edge) the proximal half can die (osteo necrosis).
To answer you question, I am sure of that there are a shit ton of boulders out there who have tossed off a pebble and had this injury given how many people partake of a sport where falling and hitting the ground is standard operating procedure. I happen to know of one - Flyin Brian McCray had this very injury from bouldering and actually had to have surgery to screw the two halves back together. He was out for a year or better. It was during this time that Jeff Moll snaked the routes that he had drilled (on lead) "Subman" and also "Golden Touch" (not drilled on lead). Jeff, in his defense, didn't know the difference between right and wrong, so he did what folks in his position do- he did what made him happy.
So, there you have it. I hope you don't need surgery. Have close follow up with a hand surgeon and catch the compromised blood flow to the proximal half early before it is too late. What happens if you miss it and the half on the scaphoid dies. It will need to be excised and you will more than likely loose prehension of the thumb (the ability of the thumb to do its thing- move across the palm and grip things). This a a horribly disabling injury. With early intervention by a good hand guy you will most likely avoid this even in the worst case scenario.
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