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My daughter was diagnosis with a broken scaphoid, 6 weeks after a gymnastics injury. put her in a thumb spica cast, but her thumb and index finger are numb.
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Need to go back: To the doctor.Cast might be too tight to cause numbness or it could be something else.
Answered 5/8/2013
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