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Answer: Primary. The fracture line is so compressed, you can't even see it on x-ray!
This is the kind of thing that gets orthopedic surgeons excited. We absolutely love when we can no longer find the fracture line. Means that thing is compressed with our hardware and primary bone healing will ensue.
Rules of Thumb Q&A
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Reader Question:
"I fell on my wrist two weeks ago and I still get sharp pain when I lift any weight. Should I see a doctor?"
What would I do?
I get asked this all the time. In clinic and in my personal life. I tell everyone Do not pass go, please go get yourself an x-ray right now!
Any old urgent care will do. But the time to go is ASAP.
The Why:
You may remember from earlier newsletters, the thing we worry about here is the scaphoid bone.
Fractures of this bone can just feel like nagging pain — not the intolerable pain of most broken bones.
It is an extremely important bone for the function of your wrist (it anchors all the other bones) and has an extremely terrible blood supply (the worst in the body).
This means that small fractures don't hurt that much, rarely heal on their own, and once they fail to heal, they unfortunately set the wrist on a path of destructive, painful wrist arthritis with few options to treat.
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As if airport security didn't already take long enough, here's a warning about the latest internet trend.
Folks are pausing to arrange the items in their airport security tray in a fashionable or artsy manner — and then posting a picture of it on their social media accounts.
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🧠 How old is your brain? There's a lot of talk about differentiating between chronological age and biological age. This model is deciphering the code to do exactly this...in the brain
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