When you have a sprained wrist you should sleep with your hand laying out so your wrist is not twisted or bent and unclench your fingers.
Consider hanging your hand over the side of the bed to help stretch out the wrist ligaments while sleeping.
If you have a wrist sprain, you may be able to move the wrist in a range of motion.
It may be painful, but you will still be able to do it.
That usually means the bones are not broken, and you have a sprain.
Another sign of a wrist sprain is that there are swelling and redness around the sprained area of the wrist.
With a broken wrist it usually takes a few days to a few weeks for the wrist to stop hurting.
Although in some cases the wrist may hurt for a few months and sometimes longer.
With a broken wrist you should ideally stay off work for 2 weeks to a month if possible.
However in some cases you may be able to return to work within a few days.
With a broken wrist you should be able to return to most activities in 1 to 2 months.
You should be able to return to all activities, including work or sports, in 3 to 6 months.
It may take up to two years for wrist stiffness to go away.
The best fruit for bones and to help keep and build strong bones and help bones heal include.
Blackberries.
Blueberries.
Figs, dried, uncooked.
Grapes.
Kiwi fruit, fresh, raw.
Mulberries.
Plums, dried (prunes)
Pomegranate juice.
The best foods to eat to heal bones include protein-rich foods like lean meats, low-fat dairy products, beans, nuts, and fortified cereals.
Leafy green vegetables like collard greens, spinach, broccoli, and kale are high in calcium, another important part of bone repair.
Vitamins C and Vitamin D help you heal broken bones.
Collagen is a protein that's an important building block for bone.
Vitamin C helps your body make collagen, which helps your bone fracture heal.
Several large research studies have shown that taking vitamin D decreases the risk of fractures.
This includes foot and ankle fractures as well as other fractures, such as hip and wrist fractures.
Improved fracture healing has also been found in people taking vitamin D.
The 4 stages of bone healing are.
1: The formation of hematoma at the break.
2: The formation of a fibrocartilaginous callus.
3: The formation of a bony callus.
4: The remodeling and addition of compact bone.
Things that can slow down bone healing include consumption of caffeine, alcohol, smoking, putting weight on the bone too soon, movement of the bone too soon and also taking anti inflammatory medicines.
If you leave a fracture untreated the fracture may take longer to heal or may not heal at all depending on the fracture.
If it's a minor fracture then it may not even need treatment to heal as most minor fractures heal on their own.
However more severe or major fractures such as a broken hip, broken arm, broken leg etc would need treatment and a cast to heal properly.
When a bone fracture is untreated, it can result in either a nonunion or a delayed union.
In the former case, the bone doesn't heal at all, which means that it will remain broken.
As a result, swelling, tenderness, and pain will continue to worsen over time.
Most minor fractures will heal on their own, but only if you refrain from activities that put weight or stress on the affected area.
During your recovery time, it's important to modify your activity. Once the pain is gone and you're ready to get back in action, do it slowly to avoid re-injury.
Healed fractures can show up on Xrays and even old fractures can show up on xrays.
The break of a freshly broken bone will show up as a black “crack” on the x-ray showing where the bone was broken.
When the fracture has healed, the healed bone has greater density than the unbroken bone and will show up in the same place, but white.
In any case, the healed bone will show up on x-rays for the rest of your life.
They have found healed bones in Egyptian mummies when they were x-rayed, so the broken bones will still show up two thousand years after your death.
Also the colors may be reversed depending on the use (or not) of digital processing.
Most of the time the bone remodels so that in 10 years it’s not possible to see where a fracture occurred.
In situations where the bony anatomy is not restored close to normal alignment this can lead to a mal union and can be detected years later.
Sometimes the healing process may leave a callus which is extra bone growth around a complex fracture which will show up in an XRAY long after the injury.