If half of your hand is bruised including the middle of it and the palm. The area below the thumb (palm of the thumb) is bruised also. part of your thumb is bruised too basically half of your hand. You don't have full range of your thumb say as if you can't touch it to the ball of your pinki or grip a softball. also if it was swollen for two or three days before the swelling went down.
do you think it would be broken?
2007-06-30 18:55:15 · 7 answers · asked by Rachel 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Okay my mom is an RN but she just looked at it once and thought it was just hurt and sore but that was a little bit after it happened.
It has been almost a week and it is still bruised and it tingles sometimes and it just hurts when I try to use it.
2007-06-30 19:09:23 · update #1
The only sure way to know is to get it xrayed. If you don't have full range of motion of your thumb, it may well be broken and you're really handicapped, so have it seen about now before the fracture heals wrong and the damage is permanent.
2007-06-30 19:00:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Range of motion is not necessarily an indicator of a break (despite what you see on TV). Swelling alone may limit the range. Point tenderness along the bone, away from the joint is a better indicator. As stated in the first answer, the only way to be sure is to get an x-ray.
2007-06-30 19:00:00 · answer #2 · answered by Smartassus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, bruising takes place when the bone or bones break and a small amount of blood leaks out of the bone, swelling is another tale tell sign. One way for sure it called X- ray.
2007-06-30 19:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by cynthia k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well it really depends on how you got the injury but it sounds like you might want to get it checked out because anything that still doesn't have even any limited motion after about three days of healing probablly means it needs a little more than just god old TLC.
2007-06-30 18:59:40 · answer #4 · answered by xxshortstuffcwxx 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless there was actually bone sticking out, I couldn't tell you without an x-ray.
2007-06-30 18:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by RadTech - BAS RT(R)(ARRT) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YES! or seriously sprained. you or whoever has this problem needs to see a doctor and get some ice on it.
2007-06-30 18:58:23 · answer #6 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get an x-ray
2007-06-30 18:57:51 · answer #7 · answered by SLOMO 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋