Back From ER
Peanut got x-rays and her wrist looked fine. He showed me all her pretty little bones in her wrist and showed me her growth plates. As a precaution he wants her seen by Ortho to rule out hairline fracture in main growth plate in the
Peanut, Ortho and Cheerleading
The ER doc said there was no fracture in the wrist. Follow up with Ortho is procedure. He said he wants Ortho to get a good look at x-rays to be sure that there is no hairline fracture in the growth plate. UGGHH!!!
A WIP
He had his CT scan yesterday and we find out today whether he'll need surgery to pin the growth plate in his wrist back in place. He's having a hard time adjusting to using one arm as my husband had to give him a bath yesterday.
Tim & Luke starting Football practice
Well, Luke has fractured his right wrist. Luckily it was in the growth plate which heals quickly. So he’ll be casted from anywhere between 3 to 4 GRIN Team Update GRIN Team Update There is now a new addition to the GRIN Team
Hurting and need help.
When I was 14 years old I shattered a growth plate and severely fractured my right wrist, I was given a splint and not a normal cast. I thought this was odd but figured the doctor knows best so I didn't question.
The Question Of "Why Me?"
I had evidently broken my bone right where the growth plate is, that I believe makes your bone grow in the right path and keeps it growing in general. Being at the age I was, they said if I were to just put a cast on,
Just want to say hi
In the process he fractured his growth plate on his right wrist and is now in a cast for two weeks. Patrick has ADD, and is requesting that I put him on medication for this. My understanding from some neighbors is that a child on meds
Little Trooper
Maybe a better way to put it is instead of the hand attached at the wrist to the end of your arm bones, He remains in good humor and the doctor said there is only a small chance there will be issues with the broken growth plate.
Single Dad-dom the complete weekend.
X-Rays negative for a break, though there is a possibility that she has a growth plate break in her wrist, it appears to be a bad sprain from a hyper extension. She’s in a splint for 3 days to see how she does. No Tags
my arm
when i was seven i jumped off a rope swing an broke my right wrist in the radius growth plate which made one of the bones stop growing. my ulna(the other bone in ur wrist) kept growing which made

Growth Plate Injuries
Approximately half of all growth plate injuries occur in the lower end of the outer bone of the forearm (radius) at the wrist. These injuries also occur
SKIN, BONE & MUSCLE DISORDERS Growth Plate Injuries
When young people finish growing, the growth plates close and are replaced by solid bone. Growth plate injuries occur mainly at the wrist, bones of the legs
Physeal Fracture Page
The example is of a wrist, partly because about 50% of growth plate injures are at the wrist and partly because that is the most likely growth plate injury
Einstein Orthopaedics Hand/Wrist Common Problems
About half of all growth plate injuries affect the outer bone of the forearm at the wrist. Growth plate injuries are usually caused by a fall or blow to a
What is a Fracture? Fracture descriptions and clifications
Of long bone fractures in ren, 30% involve the growth plate-almost half of which are at the wrist.1. Growth plate injuries occur more often in

Einstein - Orthopaedics - Hand/Wrist - Common Problems
About half of all growth plate injuries affect the outer bone of the forearm at the wrist. Growth plate injuries are usually caused by a fall or blow to a
What is a Fracture? Fracture descriptions and classifications
Of long bone fractures in children, 30% involve the growth plate-almost half of which are at the wrist.1. Growth plate injuries occur more often in boys
Wrist pain and distal growth plate closure of the radius in gymnasts.
Three cases in which wrist pain developed in skeletally immature competitive gymnasts are presented.
Growth plate injuries of the wrist and hand.
Growth plate or physeal injuries are classified according to the zones of the physis that are affect
Has Teen Stopped Growing? and other expert advice at
An x-ray revealed not only the fracture, but a lack of growth plates in the wrist. This prompted the orthopedist to tell my son that he had reached his full
Growth plate injury of the hand and wrist in renal osteodystrophy
We present two cases of growth plate injury. of the hand and wrist in young patients with renal rickets. and osteodystrophy but no history of antecedent
Gymnast's wrist(pseudorickets growth plate abnormality) in
Gymnast's wrist(pseudorickets growth plate abnormality) in adolescent athletes: findings on plain films and MR imaging. MS LIEBLING, WE BERDON,
son broke (L) wrist growth plate
My 16 year old son broke his (L) wrist growth plate wrestling last Saturday. He was casted to just below the elbow, but still has quite a bit of pain.