advice on fractured bones in the hand

[eksdee]

hello!

as i type this with one hand i'm wondering if anyone else has fractured bones in their hands and has any dietary tips for recovery and how long before it healed? i generally have a good balanced diet usually and i don't eat meat. i'm allergic to nuts but otherwise eat basically everything. i have a cast on for 3 weeks the doc said.

also, any great games to play with one hand while i'm out of comission for warhammer?

thanks dudes and dudettes

 

[tris-]

Milk and vitamin D3 if tyou can get it (might need importing from USA). Can also be obtained naturally from sunlight.
Do not use vitamin D2!

 

[Cadelin]

Milk and vitamin D3 if you can get it (might need importing from USA). Can also be obtained naturally from sunlight.
Do not use vitamin D2!

Just about all calcium tablets will come with vitamin D3 too.

If you have a healthy balanced diet then you don't need to worry too much about supplements anyway. Your doctor would have told you if you needed to take more of something.

Moderate exercise (like a brisk walk) is always good because it get the circulation working which means more blood will flow to the part that needs repairing. You have probably heard of athletes using oxygen tents to recover from an injury faster. They sleep in these tents that contains about 15% oxygen, instead of the normal 20% and this forces the heart/lungs to work harder to pump enough oxygen around the body which will increase the amount of other nutrients getting around their body too.

 

[eksdee]

lots of dog walking and milk then! thanks

 

[tris-]

Just about all calcium tablets will come with vitamin D3 too.

Most likely in very small quantities which dont do much.
That is why I would suggest buying D3 tablets and taking a decent amount.

New research is also suggesting it could protect against stuff like Parkinsons etc so worth a punt just on that basis.

 

[Cadelin]

Most likely in very small quantities which dont do much.
That is why I would suggest buying D3 tablets and taking a decent amount.

New research is also suggesting it could protect against stuff like Parkinsons etc so worth a punt just on that basis.

The calcium tablets I buy contain 50% RDA of Calcium and 50% RDA Vitamin D3. (And it suggests taking 2 a day)

 

[Ezteq]

rofl i made a thread of one handed things to do when i broke my hand abut 3 years ago, i believe it included how to shuffle a deck of cards and how to restrain a mouse one handed hehe the mouse restraint one had a diagram!

top tip, go to the fitness store and buy some wrist weights (like sand bags you strap to your wrist) and just do some light exercises with it on your bad arm every day, it helps prevent it going all puny. Oh and handy-wipes are a god send because your hand will start smelling after a while in the cast but at least you can refresh your fingers and stuff (washing em isn't recommended because you dont want to get the cast wet so hygene is an issue there).

um... oh and cheese, eat lots of cheese and chocolate...i dont know if they are medically going to help but they release endorphines

 

[eksdee]

good idea on the wipes!

maybe i could combine chocolate and milk...!

 

[Ezteq]

yes, that is calcium and endorphinizating in one!

good man, I like your style

*wink & gun*

 

[tris-]

The calcium tablets I buy contain 50% RDA of Calcium and 50% RDA Vitamin D3. (And it suggests taking 2 a day)

What exactly si the RDA though, about 500iu ?

Research says you want to take about 5000iu a day for benefits.

 

[tris-]

Should probably amend that to suggest that it is beneficial if youre lacking sunlight i.e. during the winter.
You could have toxic levels if you takw too much.

 

[Amphrax]

I had a broken knuckle from punching a door wrongly and that took approx 2-3 months to heal proper... although only reason it took that long coz of the type of job I done where I have to use my hands on keyboards 24/7.

Even after 4 years has past sometimes it feels like if someone were to pull my finger with the broken knuckle it seems like it will come off and it still hurts if done wrongly.

I had an X-ray on my hand and the knuckle slid down inbetween the other knuckles and the specialist said that there was no point putting the knuckle back up because it would just slide back down again.

 

[Access Denied]

Just about all calcium tablets will come with vitamin D3 too.

If you have a healthy balanced diet then you don't need to worry too much about supplements anyway. Your doctor would have told you if you needed to take more of something.

Moderate exercise (like a brisk walk) is always good because it get the circulation working which means more blood will flow to the part that needs repairing. You have probably heard of athletes using oxygen tents to recover from an injury faster. They sleep in these tents that contains about 15% oxygen, instead of the normal 20% and this forces the heart/lungs to work harder to pump enough oxygen around the body which will increase the amount of other nutrients getting around their body too.

Just gonna point out that of the Oxygen we taken in when breathing, we only use about 8% of it. So taking in 15% Oxygen would mean they'd be getting almost double their bodily needs when resting!

 

[Bahumat]

I'll send you a litre of semen! Hope you visit the healer soon Miri!

 

[Sparx]

Nuts make bones heal instantly, unfortantely you will never know the benefits

 

[fl3a]

as for things to play on your computer with just one hand, you should look into slower paced strategies (total war series with autoresolve battle) or point & click adventures/rpg's (have a replay of the old fallout or monkey island games).
when i have had broken bones ive been allowed to drink vodka but no fermented stuff by my doctor, so you could go and get drunk on vodka i guess.
poker is also a great pastime that you can do both online and live with one hand.
oh and if you have a guitar theres loads of stuff you can learn to do with one hand. actually, you can play lots of instruments onehanded, for example drums or the piano

 

[Mikah75]

I'm having to use one of those stress ball things all the time as my right hands pretty fucked up from all the broken fingers, they never really heal fully and can be very weak sometimes so doctors just told me to do squeezing and gripping exercises to try to help improve

 

[sayward]

my vitamin D doesn't say 2 or 3 on it...........

 

[TheBinarySurfer]

Get a herb Comfrey (sp?) often called "Knit-Bone". Can almost halve the time to heal minor breaks - example is my collar-bone should have taken 2-3 months to get fully mobile again, did it in 4 weeks from a bad break, broke my right wrist a few years back too and that healed in 2 weeks when it should have taken at least 6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfrey

Dont eat it. Great stuff.

I really loved "the witcher" while i had a broken hand (you can play the witcher with only a mouse as it's combination of hack & slash & timed mouse button mash and rpg with level-ups and a kick ass plot). Cant reccomend it enough

 

[eksdee]

sounds ace! i did some research and i want to try it - would you recommend a particular cream or oil or did you make your own?

 

[TheBinarySurfer]

sounds ace! i did some research and i want to try it - would you recommend a particular cream or oil or did you make your own?

A friend's fiance firend is a trained (but non-practicing, otherwise i'd refer you to her) herbalist.

To be clear - Comfrey doesn't actually "heal" the bone, but reduces the swelling and damage to the surrounding tissue as well as increasing bloodflow to the area drastically, allowing much more rapid healing of the injury (a good portion of the body's effort is spent on fixing the swelling and tissue damage after a break).

Any external application is best according to her, and i've also used this at the same time which seems to have helped grearly:

Warming Salve Plant Therapy : Organic Skin Care and Natural Remedies from Neals Yard Remedies

I'm sure stores aside from Neal's sell similar - they're a bit overpriced but generally helpful to advise. Many of the store advisers and managers there are trained or training herbalists and could probably advise you over the phone better than I.

Other minor thing i found really helps with easing the pain after a break (provided it wasn't a compound fracture of course!) was regular (at least 5 times a day) placement of the break and at least 6 inches either side of it into really hot water for 10-15 mins at a time - again increases the blood flow and promotes healing like the above salve would.

Oh and don't try and mix it with DMSO or similar to get it into the body as one lunactic recently suggested to me!

 

[leviathane]

gotta be said, wanking hand or not?

 

[Bahumat]

Play football manager 2009 hehe

 

[eksdee]

gotta be said, wanking hand or not?

i'm giving my backup hand a workout ;D

 

[leviathane]

oooh banter xD

 

[BloodOmen]

Busted my knuckle on someones head when I was 15, still hasn't to this day (10 years later) healed properly its in sort of an arc formation atm guess it healed into a wrong position, not overly fussy about it at present tho as its causing me no pain and I can move my hand no differently than before it happend.

 

[Fafnir]

Busted my knuckle on someones head when I was 15, still hasn't to this day (10 years later) healed properly its in sort of an arc formation atm guess it healed into a wrong position, not overly fussy about it at present tho as its causing me no pain and I can move my hand no differently than before it happend.

Did the same but was 18, my bones healed good thou, but the knuckles are still not really as visible as they where, didnt get a cast but the doctor put a roll of gauze in my hand that i had to wrap my fingers around then he wrapped rest of the hand took about 3 weeks before i could take it off.

 

[BloodOmen]

Did the same but was 18, my bones healed good thou, but the knuckles are still not really as visible as they where, didnt get a cast but the doctor put a roll of gauze in my hand that i had to wrap my fingers around then he wrapped rest of the hand took about 3 weeks before i could take it off.

Aye, I can't see the knuckle where it was broken just a sort of mini arc where the bones healed, surprised it doesnt hurt tbh.