Metacarpal fracture/broken hand bone
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Hey everyone. I broke my fifth metacarpal and had surgery to fix it up. They kept an intramedullary rod in my hand for about six weeks. Once they pulled the rod out, I started doing some exercises with a stress ball, and honestly, my grip strength is coming back pretty well. I can move my pinky just fine now. You can still see a little bump on my hand where the bone healed—kind of a callus—and if you look at the X-ray, the fracture line is still visible, similar to those follow-up shots some of you guys posted earlier. My check-up was 20 days after the hardware came out. I’m trying to figure out when I can actually get back to training. I do Muay Thai and hit the gym regularly. My doctor says hitting anything is definitely off the table for at least four months. I'm also wondering how long it takes for the bone to fully knit together so that the fracture doesn't show up on an X-ray anymore.