Is There A Difference Between Having A Fractured Wrist And A Broken Wrist.

[brenda]

Just wondered about the terminology.My friend fell about 2 weeks ago and injured her wrist.It is now in a cast.She says it is fractured , but her husband insists it is broken.It no longer hurts as much as it did and she needs to return to the hospital at some point.Her husband is a bit dismissive of he injury and this is upsetting her.Thanks Brenda.

[douglas9401]

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

[Sqad]

No....there are the same thing.

[Sqad]

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1305120.html

[boxtops]

I don't understand why her husband's dismissive of a broken limb - that's a bit unfeeling!

[Sqad]

\\\I don't understand why her husband's dismissive of a broken limb - \\\

Broken limb? That's a bit OTT, the wrist is hardly a limb and in any case it sounds like a small bone in the wrist and is "no big deal."

[gness]

No big deal!!! No big deal!! You try blow drying your hair with one wrist in a cast!.... ;-)

[Sipowicz]

I use a hairdryer! ;-)

[Sqad]

gness...true...so very, very true......I never thought of that;-)

[chrissa1]

I "broke" my wrist in 2009 that required 3 metal pins put in it under general anaesthetic.. Once it was in plaster, it didn't hurt at all.
However, my husband said at the time, "why are you going to the hairdressers again, you were there last week?"

As gness said, you cannot blow dry your hair with a plaster cast on your wrist.
Similarly, he wanted baked potatoes one evening. I asked him if was willing to peel them then, to which he replied, "err, no, we'll have something else."

Men!!!!!!!

[brenda]

Thank you everyone , very helpful.Brenda

[Sipowicz]

You peel baked potatoes?

[chrissa1]

You're right, sipowicz. It must have been roast ones. Lol. It was 5 years ago, I'm getting old.

[moelowe]

Well most people say the women are in charge of the house so i say fratured