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Fractured radius - ClumsyMT

Posted: Jan 30, 2010

Broke arm and would like to hear other MT's experience with same or similar...how long to type again, how long to productive speed, etc. TIA.

Both bone forearm fracture... - hurricane

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Had a both bone forearm fx in 2005. Had surgery and fixation plate. Doc told me it would heal faster with surgery and it did. Was only casted for 10 days --able to do QA stuff in the cast. Was typing, albeit slower than normal, at 2 weeks. Probably about 6 weeks until back to normal.

Broken wrist - MT Bottle

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I broke radius at wrist. This was a really bad fracture, many pieces. Broke ulna too but not as bad.

Had surgery the day after it happened with four pins with an external fixator - no cast. Had this on for six weeks. It was my dominant hand so I had to learn to do EVERYTHING with my nondominant hand. That was the hardest part to deal with. Think about all you do with your dominant hand...including personal activities if you know what I mean. I doubt that yours is as bad as mine was, thank goodness. It was really hard trying to sleep with the fixator too, had to have arm propped up on 2-3 pillows.

Then my insurance paid for 6 weeks physical therapy but that was not enough so I had to keep going for another 4 weeks. Then I finally went back to work and by that time I was fine, completely back to normal. My surgeon was wonderful.

Good luck with this, hope you get through it without too much trouble.

I think it depends on what you broke, how much it hurts, - and the type ofcast. I broke my wrist -sm

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last year (Colles fx.), and since it needed only a cast, and no surgery or anything, I told them to leave enough room in the thumb so I could type with it. I found it was no problem at all. So I only missed one day of work - that was to drive to the medical center for setting and casting, and then drive home again. After that, I was back in business.

Thank U all for the info & well wishes. nm - ClumsyMT

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