How can you tell if your wrist is sprained or broken?

A doctor’s diagnosis is required to determine if your wrist is sprained or broken. A break can be detected if there is tenderness in specific areas. X-rays are required to confirm a broken wrist. If there is a sprain, X-rays will show misalignments in the bones of the wrist.

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[bloodoftheinsane]

This in no way shape or form explained how to distinguish a sprain from a fracture.

[danangie]

Welp. Going over the bars on my mountain bike went well

[SaveTheSunBear]

I went to the doctor with an obviously broken wrist for them to X-ray it and say it’s a sprain. Went back a few days later. Different doctor looked at same X-ray and determined it’s broken

[ractr]

I thought learning to skate was a good idea Edit: my wrist is broken

[Leo-sstk]

I've learnt my lesson: keep your wrists solid before punching

[TGKeene]

Just happened to me yesterday and the pain is unforgetable it just hurts sooo bad but luckly it was not broken thank god

[ereHeuqibmazoM]

Both my wrists feel as if they’re sprained every single day. It’s been years now. I’ve had a surgery done on R wrist in three spots to see if they could find a cause but other than inflammation and (how they described my nerves were pancaked) smushed. Two years after that long and difficult recovery I’m back at baseline and it’s still the same except I have scars and a tissue bump on top of everything already there..

[momb]

I'm in day 3 of a broken










It hurts a lot

[jasonclark]

I thought it was a good idea to ramp from a 6ft quarter pipe to another next to it 4ft to the side landed it but the skateboard flew out from my feet and I broke my wrist

[giselle]

I fell off my pennyboard and my wrist hurts so bad

(Edit) I sprained my wrist I’m all better now :)

[boojub]

I had a soccer game today and some girl decided to kick the ball with all her power on my wrist and I fractured this wrist before so I actually can’t tell if it fractured or sprained rn def not broken

[Kayla-fxzn]

I know this is ridiculous but I sprained my wrist arm wrestling. I did not expect it

[Johnnaan]

As someone who has a sprained wrist so couldn't tell it felt sooo normal

[GMOslim]

im a boxer, me and my friend desided to mess around see who punches harder…i punched to hard, wrist hurts the next 5-10 minutes. next day comes and it hurts fairly bad. hopefully this doesnt mess with my career or dreams?

[christopherlopez]

I fell of my bike and my wrist hurts when i move but im ignoring it, should i go to doctor?

[XyonVlogs]

Hahah yeah mma just do be like that sometimes

[babyorangecreampuff]

litterely just using roller skates on concrete then fell forwards tried to catch myself and the i had to send someone down to get me after that it made me feel scared to even get back in them lol but i might try to skatboard cause i use a hover board i broke my right wrist but not my left which is scary i thinkk i broke my left one

[JIMBO]

I fooshed my wrist and a bruise came up a few days later. should I be worried or is my body just removing the bad blood?

[amanisalami]

I fell off my bike & rolled down my very steep hill 4 times & landed on my wrist 💀 now it looks like the bone that’s poking out is poking out more than usual

[emc]

Mine, when I compare my right and left wrist (from the back of my hand)they look very different from each other, my left hand often hurts so much. Whenever I take a bath like longer spent time in the bathroom which is not so usual of me, it will hurt later and it feels like the cold water got inside it and makes it feel cold or what, or should I say yea it really is hurting. Right now while I'm typing my left hand's kinda hurting too. Whenever I try to bend my hand like every people usually do to exercuse their joints it really hurts. I cannot proceed to perform any body involving activities. Especially when dancing sheesh I was trying to practice jennie's solo but I cannot my hands just hurts so bad. Whenever I hold something that needs so much strength or even just the average amount of it makes my hand hurt so much and it hurts more when I sleep and just woke up because I think I may have squeezed it unconsciously. Whenever I do something I have to use my left hand rarely. When I try to hold my balance drawing out my weight to my hand in the bed, like for example I have to get to the bed, I will hold on to something and then my weight gets heavy to that part of my body, it will hurt of course even if I haven't really force my left hand to hold me. I'm really sorry I'm not so good at explaining I'm out of words all I think is that it might not be normal because no one in my fam is experiencing the same thing but I'm opening up to them too maybe later I can talk to dad and tell him how much it hurts. I just can't help but worry too much cause it's really hurting and I'm uncomfortable I feel like sooner or later I might not be able to protect my left hand and suddenly break it I don't want to lose my hands😭😂

Edit: btw I think like my hand has been like this for years. I remember noticing my hand was like this when I was in 8th grade. I'm in the 10th grade now.