What are the manifestations of scaphoid fracture

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Uncle is working in the construction site, once accidentally fell from the second floor, resulting in wrist scaphoid fracture, due to the timely treatment, the prognosis is quite good. Let's take a look at the manifestations of scaphoid fracture.

What are the manifestations of scaphoid fracture

First of all, it can be manifested as local swelling of the wrist joint, especially in the snuff socket. Under normal circumstances, the snuff socket is manifested as a soft tissue depression. After trauma, the disappearance of the soft tissue depression indicates its swelling.

Secondly: wrist pain (especially radial pain) is also an important clinical manifestation, some patients will have wrist function limitation.

Finally: in clinical work, there are some patients with swelling, pain, limited activity performance is not obvious, but physical examination in the snuff socket tenderness has a certain diagnostic significance, in addition, most patients Watson test positive.

matters needing attention

If there is no healing, it can be reexamined every 3-4 weeks until healing. If there is no sign of healing after plaster fixation for more than 4-6 months, surgical intervention should be considered in this case, so as to make the fracture heal as soon as possible.