MAG Surgery Update

[munchkin3]

After 3 hand specialists, we are 100% sure of what's going on. He chipped a bone in his wrist and now it floats.
Dr. Thinks it MAY be fine to leave it the way it is, IF we can get the pain to go away. He said many people are fine with floating bone fragments ( I doubt gymnasts!) so anti-inflammatories for a few weeks.
If not, last resort it to go in and take it out....he said it is very simple.
Nobody wants to do surgery on a young teenager so we will give this last treatment a try and see.

It is great to know exactly what it is! For 6 months we have been doing everything the doctors instructed, and nothing......hopefully we are at the end of a long road....and hopefully my son can become the gymnast he wants to be....

 

[gymgal]

Glad to hear you have answers and the surgery will be easy, if he has to go down that road. Dealing with it for 6 mths is a long time. Not sure two more weeks of anti-inflammatories will help much but it is definitely worth a try. Hopefully it floats to a "safer" spot and lays low until it dissolves.

 

[skschlag]

Finally! So glad you have an answer, and hopefully it will heal for him without surgery.

 

[Iwannabemargo]

After 3 hand specialists, we are 100% sure of what's going on. He chipped a bone in his wrist and now it floats.
Dr. Thinks it MAY be fine to leave it the way it is, IF we can get the pain to go away. He said many people are fine with floating bone fragments ( I doubt gymnasts!) so anti-inflammatories for a few weeks.
If not, last resort it to go in and take it out....he said it is very simple.
Nobody wants to do surgery on a young teenager so we will give this last treatment a try and see.

It is great to know exactly what it is! For 6 months we have been doing everything the doctors instructed, and nothing......hopefully we are at the end of a long road....and hopefully my son can become the gymnast he wants to be....

Hubbie has floating bone chips in his elbow (rugby injury), he gets pain on a regular basis, given a choice he would have them out. - hope he gets better soon

 

[Mom2twingymnasts]

Glad you finally found the cause! Good luck with the recovery!

 

[MaryA]

DD has a newly floating bone fragment in her finger, and she never complains about it. Of course, knowing her, that does NOT mean that it doesn't hurt...

 

[GymMom67]

My DD has a floating bone fragment in her ankle. It was the same type thing.....took them a while to figure out the problem. She was seeing a sports medicine doctor (who found it right away.....it was an orthopedic dr. who didn't find it) and he didn't seem to think it was necessary to take it out. He sent her to physical therapy for a few weeks to strengthen the tendons in that ankle, and that seems to have worked so far. She isn't going to physical therapy anymore, but still does the exercises at home. Good luck!