Wrist Injury

most likely an anti-inflamatory will help as much as a brace, assuming its not broken.

 

they have these people who go to school for a long time called Doctors, might want to see one

 

maybe just an air cast. if they want to cast you, just tell them to wait and get you through the trip.

 

This happened to me in last year. Was playing soccer, got tripped, went down on my wrist. Same thing, had trouble popping up, felt like a strain and I couldn't put weight on it. I tried to deal with it for 3 weeks and also thought about using a brace, I tried athletic tape, etc. You are going to have to see a doctor. If it won't get better, it needs to be immobilized. But here's the bad news. You probably broke your scaphoid bone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaphoid_bone

So healing time for me was about 3 months. Mine was not "displaced", in other words, just a crack. It was immobilized and in 6 weeks it was checked for healing and it was, so I went to a brace for 2 more weeks. Still no surfing. After that they claimed it was "healed" but I still couldn't put much weight on it and they said no surfing for a month. After a month I was able to at least pop up, but it was still tender and had sort of dull pain. It took until about 9 months (no joke) until I could pop up without pain. Getting old is a *****.

The doctor might be lenient with you and let you go with a wrist brace for the wedding if you totally don't want to go to a cast, but you'll potentially be delaying healing time.

 

I broke my wrist back in February...they do removable braces for the most part now a days. The reason you need to go to the DR. is if it is broken, you need to know if it is set right. If it's more than 10 degrees off, you will more than likely need it reset. Also if it's broken and not needing resetting, you might need to hold off on using it, so as to not cause more serious problems. You can go to a walk in clinic to get the info you need...knowing is half the battle.

My wrist was less than 10 degrees and got the brace off after 5 weeks, but I can still feel my tendon and muscles having to readjust to the change.

 

Amen. I broke the outside bone in my hand about 8 yeras ago. Was told to stay out of the water but ignored it and rebroke the bone before it completely set. Took another 6-8 months before it was right. Not fun. Hands and wrists are complicate items and don't work well if messed up.

 

How hard did you fall? Did you trip or get wrecked on the skateboard? Reason I ask is because I too broke my scaphoid a few years amongst other bones in my wrist (got dealt on my snowboard). My surgeon gave me the low down on this little f'er. If it doesn't heal correctly you'll be sure to have arthritis pretty bad in that hand when you get older. Blood flows through it somehow or another and if it's broken, obviously blood flow is inhibited and the bone will begin to decay. Mine was in half so they put a screw through it and I haven't had a problem with it since.....catch up with me in 30 years and I may be telling you otherwise

Go to the DR, dude. Deny the cast if you really have to but I would give it the proper attention when you get back. Until then, highly doubt any brace is going to really help you out unfortunately. <Debbie Downer>

 

i recall having an injured wrist that seemed to last forever. I don't remember how it happen, it was years ago. But i do remember not being able to surf well with it. I didn't wear anything while in the water, but got an older/simple style ace bandage/brace thats made for your wrist, just to keep it strengthened/supported while out of the water. seemed to help alot. If its alot of pain- see a DR. I remember having some pain- but mostly the inability to but any pressure on it.

 

Broke my scaphoid years ago. Pretty much had the same experience as others have written. Just beware it can be broken and you can still do things you wouldn't think it was possible to do with a broken wrist. I could do pullups with no problem or pain but bending my wrist backwards was a no go. I taped the hell out of it and even inserted the plastic part of the old rollerblade/skateboard wrist guard in the tape job which worked pretty well. You could even add some foam to the hard edges of the plastic to protect your board.

Fast forward 4 months and I finally go to the Dr. who says while looking at the xrays "See these 2 bones here? It should be 1 bone!" oops! Had to have a piece of my hip bone screwed into my wrist. Spent one of the best summers for waves boozin on the beach watching everyone else surf.

 

stop beating off