The pain after metacarpal fracture surgery mainly includes the pain caused by postoperative edema and the pain during the rehabilitation period. The postoperative edema pain usually disappears in about one week, while the pain during the rehabilitation period often takes three months to disappear.
1. Postoperative edema pain: metacarpal fracture belongs to the more common type of fracture of the upper limb, mostly due to the metacarpal bone was directly or indirectly caused by external force. Metacarpal fracture surgery patients in the 72 hours after surgery for the peak of edema, with the gradual absorption of edema, most of the patients’ pain can be significantly reduced in about a week.
2. Rehabilitation pain: after 3~4 weeks of fixation, patients with metacarpal fracture need to remove the fixation device to carry out rehabilitation training, the process of rehabilitation training may also make the peripheral nerve root stimulated by the pulling pain, most of the patients, with the continuous enhancement of the strength of the soft tissues and the fracture is completely healed, the pain can be disappeared gradually after three months.
After metacarpal fracture surgery, you need to carry out systematic rehabilitation training under the guidance of professional rehabilitation doctors to reduce the adverse effects of the disease.