The scaphoid is probably the worst bone in the entire arm to break. It has a poor blood supply, it is subjected to high stresses, and it is a very important wrist bone. Scaphoid fractures are serious injuries. Textbooks have been written about them. They love to not heal (i.e. go on to "non-union") and/or have part of the bone die ("avascular necrosis": like a heart attack of bone). And if they don't heal, the wrist almost inevitably develops arthritis.
Scaphoid fractures can be through the waist (middle) of the scaphoid, though its distal third (toward the thumb tip; best chance to
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