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Wrist injury -sprain, strain or fracture

2017-10-25 15:46:44
I suffered a road accident,fell down protecting myself by right hand (6 pm). Only found a little stiffness in rotating at right wrist joints. But after 3 to 4 hours, pain increased so much that I could not use my right hand and very difficult to sleep. After abaut 16 hours of the incident, pain started reducing and working of right wrist joints started improving. Should I still fear for any fracture and go for x-ray and/or MRI ?
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You can just get X-RAY done. If there is no fracture visible, then probably you have suffered sprain/strain.

Answered2017-10-26 08:17:05

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