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How To Treat Injured Wrist And Forearm?

I fell on Sunday and hurt my wrist and forearm. I have a cut and now have bruising from my wrist to mid forearm and some swelling in my forearm, but very little pain. Just some tenderness when touched where it is swollen. Trying to decide if I need an xray.
Wed, 15 Oct 2014
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Dear friend,hope you have applied antiseptic dressing for the cut.as you have swelling and tenderness inthe region of wrist to mid forearm,the area very much proneto bony fracture due to even trivial trauma you should bnot neglect this condition.instead you should go for a X ray evaluation of the bony constituents of that part so that you can be sure of whether you have broken any bone.also with X ray as a physician we get an idea about the magnitude of local soft tissue damage in that area.So,X ray is needed in this case.thak you.
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How To Treat Injured Wrist And Forearm?

Dear friend,hope you have applied antiseptic dressing for the cut.as you have swelling and tenderness inthe region of wrist to mid forearm,the area very much proneto bony fracture due to even trivial trauma you should bnot neglect this condition.instead you should go for a X ray evaluation of the bony constituents of that part so that you can be sure of whether you have broken any bone.also with X ray as a physician we get an idea about the magnitude of local soft tissue damage in that area.So,X ray is needed in this case.thak you.