Can my arm possibly be broken?

Question

Ummm I was skateboarding and I fell on arm. I CAN move my arm from my shoulder, bend my elbow, fingers, and wrist but it hurts so much, it hurts like hell to type with the hand but it mostly hurts lower part of forearm and elbow. Can it be broken? I did it literal 10 minutes ago. I don't wanna go to ER unless nesscary because it is 10:12 PM and I got school tomorrow I am 14.

Well actually it was like 30 minutes ago I copied and pasted my question from injurys and changed time.

Answer 1

It's very likely that you have broken it. It doesn't matter if you can move it or not, you may have a hairline fracture. In New Zealand when I did a first aid course we were told that if you suspect a fracture you should go to ER and get an Xray. I've been down to ER about 3 times later at night that you have, I thought it was nothing but I had my appendix removed and broken arm.

If you don't go to ER now and it is broken you may do irreversible damage and never be able to use it again. Treat it as if it's a fracture until you know otherwise. Apply ice to take the swelling down and go to ER.

Answer 2

Sounds like you have some internal bruising. Take some tylenol for the pain, and some motrin for the internal swelling. Its good that you cn move your fingers and hands. Give it a couple of weeks. If you have not noticed improvement by then, you could have fractured it. Then you would need to get to your physician for xrays to make sure the fracture is gong to heal properly. Take it a week at a time, your 14 you should hea pretty quickly.

Answer 3

If you can move your fingers and stuff, it might not be broken. just don't move it anymore and rest it for the night. go to sleep and in the morning if it's still like that then go to the doctor. the same thing happened to me once, but it was with my fingers and i just left it alone and now it's fine. but if you feel that it really hurts a lot when you're not moving it then go to the doctor.

Answer 4

It might be... Talk to your parents, set up a doctor's appointment for tomorrow afternoon, and in the meantime put your arm in a makeshift sling so you don't move it too much. Get your mom to write up a note if you have PE or anything like that.

Answer 5

Get an particularly heavy merchandise (by ability of heavy, I recommend like the old CRT TVs that took 2 human beings a minimum of to go) amplify your arm out in a fashion so as that in case you bend it, your forearm factors downwards. and then drop the object on your elbow section in case you do no longer strategies somebody helping, get somebody with a minimum of a few actual potential pull your arm into the comparable place i discussed previously and in basic terms elbow it no longer undemanding adequate so as that your forearm bends the different way its meant to.

Answer 6

First of all, don't listen to cinnabon.sweet. She's a troll anyway (in one post she claims to be a rich little snot who, along with each of her own siblings, has a private chauffeur and nanny, another she claims to be dating some great athlete, and now she says she's broken 37 bones). Anyway, you NEED to see a doctor. It could be a broken bone, or it could be another internal injury. Please have someone bring you to get it checked out. Good luck!

Answer 7

most likely it is not. apply pressure to it and if it DOESN'T hurt that means it is broken. if you apply pressure and it hurts more, then you just bruised it pretty bad. trust me, don't go to the ER because it will be a waste of time and money. oh! and if it it swelling to about three times its normal size it is broken. hope i helped.

Answer 8

it might be fractured. if it doesnt hurt too badly try to sleep and go to school, and if it still really hurts go to the hospital in the afternoon.

Answer 9

broke?? def not, because trust me my friend if it was broken you would fer sure know it