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Can i have my thumb out of the plaster cast for a ulna wrist break?
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Thumb spica: Check with your orthopedic surgeon. They may want to protect the perilunate ligaments if they are concerned with some for of carpal instability pattern. If not that, then consider getting thumb out of cast if not involving the radial column at all.
Answered 3/23/2013
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