For a fractured metacarpal, you may need a cast or splint. Casts are fiberglass or plaster. They wrap all the way around your hand and can only be removed in the doctor’s office.

Other names are metacarpal fracture, metacarpal neck fracture, hand fracture, ... Splinting or casting. One or the other is used on all boxer's fractures that don’t need immediate surgery.

A boxer's fracture, or metacarpal fracture, ... The splint or cast should completely immobilize the joints above and below the site of the injury.

Your thumb has two bones called the phalanges. The most common fracture associated with a broken thumb is actually to the larger bone of your hand known as the first metacarpal. This bone connects ...

Two-time Group 1 winner Soul Rush will miss the summer racing season with a fracture to his left fourth metacarpal bone, or splint bone, reports Daily Sports. The 7-year-old by Rulership ran in ...

A break in the “neck,” or the topmost part of a metacarpal bone, ... In most cases, if a person has a splint, a doctor will instruct them to stop wearing it after 4–6 weeks.