Wrist injury -sprain, strain or fracture

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I suffered a road accident,fell down protecting myself by right hand (6 pm). Only found a little stiffness in rotating at right wrist joints. But after 3 to 4 hours, pain increased so much that I could not use my right hand and very difficult to sleep. After abaut 16 hours of the incident, pain started reducing and working of right wrist joints started improving. Should I still fear for any fracture and go for x-ray and/or MRI ?

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Dr. Vijay Ramnani MCSP Physiotherapist 20 yrs exp Haridwar Consult Now · Accepted Answer

Dr. Vijay Ramnani MCSP

Physiotherapist 20 yrs exp Haridwar

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You can just get X-RAY done. If there is no fracture visible, then probably you have suffered sprain/strain.

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