Anyone had a rollerblade tumble before? My wrist doesn't look too good.?

Question

I fell the other day thanks to a huge leaf-covered hole, and my wrists absorbed most of the fall (other than my sore bruised butt). The left palm is bruised and a little skinned up but the right wrist is very bruised below the palm and can't rest it on anything. It also has this tingling and tight feeling over the top of the hand off and on. I can lift things with that hand still but anything touching that area is painful and the whole hand feels weak when the tightness kicks in. My mom is a nurse so we usually wait things out but I don't know if i have a compartment syndrome starting up or if something not obvious broke. Has anyone else been stupid rollerblading without a wrist guard and done this? Oh, tylenol isn't stopping the pain either

i'm taking some stronger meds now with aleve to see if there's swelling in there (doesn't look visabily swollen), so i don't think it's a major break. i just don't know if i should see an urgent care tonight or see if i can luck out and get into my dr this week? thanks for those fast replies

Answer 1

You should go to a med center and get it checked out. You may have broken something or have a serious sprain. They can splint it and give you some good pain meds.

Answer 2

For the skinned palms or arms or wrists, I would use hydrogen peroxide 3% solution to disinfect area and then apply antibiotic ointment, like "polysporin tripple action" or "bactroban". Now for the bruising part of your injury, try cold ice wrapped in a sandwich baggie and apply to bruise, keep doing that. Yeah I know tylenol doesn't work, I fell off my bike one day and skinned my whole right leg twice, in the same spot, lol. Needless to say I never went on the bike again. My skinned leg was burning when I put the polysporin on, and I just sat there resting my leg. But I had to wash wound first as I fell twice on the road, in my injury.
For the right wrist and palm bruising, try ice. You may want to try and have a warm bath, it may reduce the pain as well, esp. with right wrist tingling and getting tight. I believe you that your whole hand feels weak and that you cannot touch anything, maybe you should use a sling for that arm, and have the sling attached to your neck, or if you don't want to buy a sling, just use a big piece of material and get someone to tie it to you neck, with your arm in it. This may help the fact that you can't rest your right hand on anything, so it will be in a sling and get ice put on it, take it out of sling for that. The tingling, is the nerves in the area, from your injury. See what you can do with my remedy here, and if tingling and pain don't go away after a few days, or aren't better, go to your doctor. I had burning sensations and tingling and tightness on my injured leg, it was all skinned and bruised too. It is just the injury that is making it it tingle, burn, and feel tight. If the top part of your right hand isn't skinned or swollen, maybe try massaging it gently, maybe put some handlotion on the right hand on top, and rub it in gently. I was also hit by an industrial GMC van while crossing the street as a pedestrian. I had muscle spasms to my whole torso, back and front, very painful, I rested, took tylenol. I got strong pain medication at the hospital where the ambulance took me, and I also had a broken left arm, in the upper region, and a torn muscle on left leg. But I didn't take the strong painkiller pills, since they had too much side effects, and I figured I had enough problems the way I was. The side effects were: vomitting, shortness of breath, diarrhea, and other stupid side effects. I couldn't even get out of bed on my own or get into bed, my Dad had to assist me, and having muscle spasms on front and back of whole torso, and a broken left arm in a sling, made me be unable to move.

Anyways, you should take it easy, and rest, try and do that for about a week, with the ice and antibiotic ointment on skinned skin and ice for pain, and try massaging top right hand. Sometimes what happens in an injury, is that the muscles go totally stiff, I used to have a b/f who kept getting injured from snowmobile, all his muscles were stiff like a rock, I had to massage his muscles to make him feel better. You see, if an injured area is stiff, that means that not enough blood going there and if you massage or get someone else to massage the area, it won't be stiff anymore and it will feel better, keep that up. So once the blood can flow into injured area, more healing takes place.

If your condition isn't improving withing 5-7 days, from this advice, then go visit doctor. But I think you just are bruised, it doesn't seem like anything broken, but if there is any swelling on that right hand or wrist, that indicates that it is sprained, fractured, or broken. Get Well Soon!!! Mermaid199

Answer 3

It is either dislocated: not in joint or position,
or it is Sprained: the ligament was pulled,
or it is strained: the tendons and muscles were pulled,
or it is fractured: the bone is broken, cracked or shattered.
You might want to see the doctor because if you don't know what the injury is it is best to find out and treat it right away.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Wrists are easy to break. Have your doctor check it out.

Answer 6

i have fractured my wrist two times. you need to get it x-rayed. It more than likely has a fracture. wrists break and fracture VERY easily

Answer 7

go to the ER

Answer 8

go get xrayed it could be broken