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The patient is a 15-year-old male with a history of left wrist pain following a football-related injury. He described the initial injury as hyperextension of his left wrist during football practice. He was seen at an urgent care center and initially diagnosed with a left wrist sprain. At that time, he was given a cock-up wrist splint. The patient continued to play football and “re-aggravated” his wrist 1 month later. He presented to a primary care sports medicine physician with left wrist pain. He reported that the pain had never resolved from a month earlier. New X-rays were obtained at that visit, an MRI was ordered, and the patient was removed from sports. The MRI was obtained about 1 week later, and the patient was placed in a long arm cast and was referred to a hand surgeon for definitive care. He had no prior medical or surgical history, and he had no previous history of trauma to the left wrist. He denied tobacco use.
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Tomaino, M., Hughes, T.B. (2015). Nonoperative Management of Non-displaced Acute Scaphoid Fracture. In: Yao, J. (eds) Scaphoid Fractures and Nonunions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18977-2_2
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