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Wrist Injury Home Care: Warning Signs

Notify your doctor if you have wrist injury and any of the following:

Fever over 101 degrees F (38.3 C)
Hand numbness (unilateral)
Hand weakness (unilateral)
Inability to move the wrist
Injection injury:

A substance is injected under the skin under pressure

Pail fingers
Worsening wrist pain
Worsening wrist swelling
Worsening wrist tenderness
Wrist deformity
Wrist laceration
Wrist puncture wound
Wrist skin redness and pain
Worsening cast pain

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Last Updated: Nov 4, 2008 References

Authors: Stephen J. Schueler, MD; John H. Beckett, MD; D. Scott Gettings, MD

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