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Message: [QUOTE="Giddyup5, post: 4120553, member: 804"] Ya many times a X-ray 2 weeks later can show a subtle non displaced placed fracture that was missed. We do that sometimes for joe shmoes of the world. MRI is the study of choice to r/o scaphoid fracture. I would be shocked if Martin did not get an MRI. A short arm thumb spica is all you need for a non displaced scaphoid fracture for most people. Frankly high level athletes will get surgery for those as well many times as it has shown quicker return to sports. Whoever put that cast above the elbow was not following evidence based medicine. [/QUOTE]