Arm Fracture

Symptoms

If you have fractured the shaft of your humerus, your symptoms may include:

• Pain, swelling, tenderness and bruising in your upper arm

• Limited motion in your upper arm and shoulder

• Deformity of your injured arm or shortening of the arm compared to your uninjured arm (if pieces of fractured bone are separated far apart)

• Parts of fractured bone visible through broken skin (an open fracture)

If you have fractured one or both of the bones of your forearm, your symptoms will vary depending on the severity of your fracture:

• Mild symptoms may include pain, swelling, tenderness, and limited motion near the area of broken bone.

• More severe fractures may result in bruising and may cause deformity of the forearm, loss of normal arm motion, and numbness in the wrist or hand.

• Parts of the fractured bone (or bones) visible through broken skin. (an open fracture)