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How to Treat a Wrist Injury
Dr. Travis Stork: Come up here and help me out, I want to show some kids at home some stuff to do. All right, so we’re going to stand up over here bud, because probably this is one of the most common injuries I see in the ER are either broken bones or sprains.
Now, the most common problem is a sprain. So if you’re mom at home and your kid has an obvious deformity, let’s say they either sprained their wrist or they break their wrist, Zach, do this for me okay. Let’s say Zach falls on a playground and he’s got a big swollen wrist, to keep Zach pain-free, you want to immobilize that wrist. You can take a magazine and simply wrap it around, keep that immobilized, and what you want to do the first 24 to 487 hours of injury is something called the RICE Method. Rest the injury, apply Ice for 20 minutes every two to three or four hours, apply Compression bandage, and Elevate it above the level of your heart. That will help decrease swelling and inflammation.
Now, when you go to the ER, if you have obvious deformity, severe swelling, if they’re unable to bear weight or move that extremity, you’ve got to go and get X-rays, because it could be a more serious injury other than sprains. But the absolute key for kids is immobilizing the joint because when those bones, if they’re broken and they’re rubbing against each other, it is extremely painful and that’s a pretty cool looking contraption, right.
Dr. Jim Sears: It’s a splint.
Dr. Drew Ordon: That’s like a short arm cast.
Dr. Lisa Masterson: Yeah.
Zach: I look like Iron Man.
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