Q. I was playing basketball last month and fell on my right wrist. I felt severe pain when I landed on it. I went to the ...

The scaphoid is a peanut-shaped bone on the radial aspect of the wrist (thumb side) which is particularly prone to a significant type of injury—the transverse fracture.

The scaphoid bone is one of the eight ... University Medical Center and the chief of orthopedic hand surgery there, said the scaphoid bone is usually slower to heal than a radial fracture. ...

Thibodeaux fractured his scaphoid bone and had it repaired during Wednesday’s surgery. That small bone is located on the thumb side of the wrist, at the base of the hand.

A typical recovery time for a scaphoid bone injury is four to six weeks. Early word from a source on Kayvon Thibodeaux's expected timeline from surgery on the broken schapoid bone in his wrist: 4 ...