Dr. Keith Feder has some good news and bad news about Blake Griffin’s fractured hand.
On the plus side, the kind of break Griffin has is a simple and common injury.
“It’s pretty straightforward,” said Feder, a surgeon at the West Coast Orthopedic Center in Manhattan Beach. “Once it’s healed, it’s usually not a problem going forward.”
The bad news is that healing can take up to six weeks. And there’s not much that can be done to speed that up.
“You could use a bone stimulator. But in the early area after a fracture, usually they don’t have a lot of effect to speed up the healing….