Vascularized bone graft

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Anyone had one done on their Scaphoid? Advice?

Ive come off twice now and busted my wrist, apparently it never healed the first time, non-union, now the second time they did a CT and saw that it was screwed... well not yet but they will be putting a screw in it as well.


The link shows an actual human arm being operated on.......

Treatment of scaphoid nonunion with a vascularized bone graft harvested from the volar aspect of the radius

My avatar is when i did it for the second time

 

[hman]

that made me feel sick.

 

[daniel7250]

my old man broke his falling off a ladder. hes on his 4th month off work.

 

[motovert24]

i've snapped mine in half from a crash.
took abit over 8 weeks with a certain cast and then 8 weeks doing nothing with that hand (no riding anything but i still did) if it doesn't heal up right you need surgery or you wont beable you use your thumb...
the hand still is annoying after 3 years but glad it healed up ok after looking at that...

 

[krazed0451]

My sister had hers done about two years ago. It was mostly ok to use within 6month, almost totally good within a year. Apparently it hasn't gotten much better since then though.

Unfortunately with scaphoid breaks it is variable from person to person and no matter who it's on it is unlikely to be the same ever again. If you have been told surgery is your best/only option then it likely is. The only thing you can do is look after it as much as possible in recovery to ensure the healing happens as well as possible and keep up any recovery exercises afterwards. The screw work now days is pretty good

Good luck with the op!