Q. I was playing basketball last month and fell on my right wrist. I felt severe pain when I landed on it. I went to the ...

The scaphoid is a peanut-shaped bone on the radial aspect of the wrist (thumb side) which is particularly prone to a significant type of injury—the transverse fracture.

Discussion Wrist injuries after a fall on an outstretched hand (FOOSH) are common in any age group. However, SL ligament tears are more common in adults, especially adult athletes.

A scaphoid fracture causes swelling and pain around the base of the thumb. The pain may be significant when trying to make a grasping motion or other movement of the thumb or wrist. If the ...

Giants pass rusher Kayvon Thibodeaux underwent surgery for a fracture in his wrist Wednesday morning and is out “week-to-week,” head coach Brian Daboll said before practice.

Hay said scaphoid bone fracture surgery typically involves inserting a screw to stabilize the break. “Typically, it goes on to heal reliably well,” he said.

Wrist (carpal bones like the scaphoid, lunate or capitate) Distal radius and ulna We also treat complex wrist bone fractures of the scaphoid, lunate or capitate that are not healing. Wrist fractures ...

To clarify the study findings, Dias said results of SWIFFT showed scaphoid waist fractures with less than 2 mm of displacement are amenable to nonoperative treatment with casting. However ...

In the wrist, the semipronated oblique is useful in identifying scaphoid fractures, the most common carpal bone fracture (Fig. 3). The reverse oblique is quite useful for detecting fractures of ...

The injury is not expected to require surgery. There isn’t a timetable for his return, although Cronenworth recalled a left wrist (scaphoid) fracture in 2015 healing in about six weeks.

PORTLAND, Ore. (Jan. 8, 2024) – Further advanced imaging on Moses Brown’s left wrist injury demonstrated a non-displaced fracture of his scaphoid. Surgery is planned for this week.

March 16: Tatis is undergoing surgery this morning, tweets Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union Tribune. 11:29am: Tatis has a fracture in the scaphoid bone of his left wrist, tweets Cassavell. It’s ...