The bone is handled. It’s in a cast, held with wires, or fixed with a plate and screws, and it will knit. What a wrist fracture actually takes from people is the hand around it: fingers that sit still in swelling and stiffen, a forearm that forgets how to turn the palm up, a grip that never comes back properly. All of that is lost in the weeks everyone spends resting the whole arm and waiting for the pain to go.
The Wrist Fracture Plan is my 12-week workbook, with the week numbers mapped to all three routes: cast, wires, or plate. What to do from day 1 in the cast, and the signs the cast needs changing. The first two weeks of wrist movement, with stop rules. Range, then load, in the right order, and the week the X-ray decides. A test at week 12. The complications worth knowing by name, including the thumb tendon that snaps weeks after the break, and the soft tissue injuries that get missed cos everyone’s looking at the bone. A printable weekly log and a cast-weeks tick grid.
Written by Nigel Chua, hand occupational therapist in practice since 2005. Thousands of hands, wrists and elbows assessed and treated. PDF, 24 pages, delivered to your email the moment you pay. Education, not an assessment; your surgeon’s or fracture clinic’s instructions come first, every time.
$27. If the plan doesn’t help you understand your recovery and what to do about it, email me within 90 days for a full refund.