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Carpal Tunnel after wrist fracture: What is your experience?
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: Sep 10 6:46pm | Replies (16)Comment receiving replies
I had a fall while jogging in July with a distal radial fracture and ORIF. I saw my surgeon this week for my 6 week post op visit. Everything is healing well . However i have some intermittent tingling in my fingers. He to.d me that carpal tunnel can be a complication of the wrist surgery. He said i didn’t have signs of carpal tunnel when he did the surgery. If he sees evidence of carpal tunnel during the ORIF ,he will go ahead and do the carpal tunnel surgery also. He gave me a steroid injection to see if that helps. I have had more pain amd problems with this than my hip replacement in 2023. Although that was not due to a fall.
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Hi.
I hear that CTS surgery is no big deal.
I had an injection but I still get pain and cannot put weight on my wrist.
Follow up tomorrow.
My daughter asked an interesting question when I mentioned your post. Was your surgery done by a specialized hand and arm surgeon? When she broke her wrist, she was an ER Nurse in a large urban trauma center, and insisted her repair be done by the hand surgeon, not the on-call ortho, even though it meant she had to wait, in substantial pain, for 24 hours until the right person was available. When she had excessive pain and numbness, her doc knew right away what the problem was, and it only took a short procedure to open the tendon sheath and stent it to keep it from closing again.
If you continue to have pain you might want to consult a hand doc.
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After my daughter's fall and fractures, she had a swollen tendon sheath that had to be cut to relieve the numbness - not exactly carpal tunnel, but definitely because of the trauma.