Physical Therapy for Broken Wrist?

What are some of your broken bone stories?

• Here are some of mine: 2 broken arms: I was in the 7th grade and I fell out of a tree. I fell about 20 feet to the ground. I had a buckle fracture in each of my arms. Both of my arms were put in long arm cast. I was in both casts for 8 weeks. Broken thumb, broken fingers, broken hand, shattered every bone in my wrist, shattered elbow: I was in 9th grade and I got hit by a car. None of my body was really hurt but both car tires went right over my left arm. I was rushed to the hospital and immediately had surgery on my thumb wrist and elbow. I was admitted in the hospital for just about 1 month. I was put in a long arm thumb spica cast that also was covering all of my fingers. I wore this same cast for 14 weeks. The cast was smelling terrible after around 6 weeks but the doctor could not replace the cast because my arm was set in an important position. Finally, after wearing that cast for 14 weeks, the doctor said that I could get a new cast. The new cast was just a long arm cast. After that, I got my cast changed every 8 weeks or so. I was wearing long arm casts for just about a year and to this day I am still doing physical therapy.

• Answer:

  Had a car accident - complicated fracture of my right humerus (upper arm) which they operated on, put a plate and screws to hold the pieces of bone together. 7 weeks later, the plate snapped. My arm had made absolutely no attempt at healing. Operation was repeated, to replate it, this time with a bone graft from my hip. Still wouldn't heal, had some demineralised bone matrix (bone taken from dead people, mushed up and has the growth factors taken out of it) mixed with my bone marrow and inserted into the fracture site. Still no healing, so had the bone shortened to take out the dead part, had another bone graft, and eventually 13 months after the original car accident, it FINALLY healed and I was able to go back to work!!