← Return to Stiff fingers and wrist after distal radius surgery

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My doctor is reluctant to prescribe more therapy. How long did you receive therapy?

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Welcome @udy, From what I've read , recovery from wrist surgery can take as long as 4 to 6 months. My wife broke her wrist Oct 11th, 2021 and had therapy sessions 2 to 3 weeks apart after the initial meeting with the therapist who gave her specific exercises to do at home. She also had to use hand weights to help strengthen the wrist.

Did the therapist give you exercises to do at home along with ones to help strength and flexibility?

My 40-something daughter is going through this right now after a severe open fracture, 2 surgeries, hardware and bone grafts. She describes her progress as "up to 70%, back to 40%, up to 70% again, back to 50%..." Her hand surgeon is pleased with her progress (after 10 months) due to the severity of the injury, and expects her ultimate recovery to be in the range of 80%. She is still receiving therapy once a week, and doing home exercise twice a day. But her early therapy was very limited, and only after 10 weeks after the second surgery was she allowed to begin.
How long were you prescribed therapy? Is everything fully healed internally?
Sue