Treating Wrist Fracture

Treatment will depend on how severe the injury.

Treatment:

• Putting the pieces of the bone together, which may require anesthesia and/or surgery
• Keeping the pieces together while the bone heals itself

Devices that may be used to hold the bone in place while it heals:

• A cast (may be used with or without surgery)
• A metal plate with screws (surgery)
• Screws alone (surgery)
• Metal pins that cross the bone, with a metal splint on the outside of the wrist that holds the pins and the fractured bone in place (surgery)

The doctor may give you pain medication depending upon the level of pain. Your doctor will order more x-rays while the bone heals to make sure that the bones have not shifted.