Gifts For Someone With a Broken Arm

1. Breaking an Arm Makes you Pretty Much Dependent on Others

We use our arms in almost everything we do. The only thing we can think of where we don’t summon the versatility of our arms is walking -although they kind of get involved somewhere. You can’t walk with a stiff upper body like a robot. You find yourself swinging your arms, even if it’s a slight swing, to keep us balanced.

So, yeah. Your arms and hands are pretty important. Science agrees, noting that the development of our limbs, more so the arms, got us to where we are – at the top of the food chain.

So, when you break an arm, you literally go down a notch in the evolution ladder, figuratively of course. With a broken arm, you pretty much have to rely on others to help you with:

• Feeding yourself (if you break both arms)
• Dressing
• Answering your phone (because multitasking with a broken arm is like white water rafting while steering with your legs)
• Reaching for items
• Opening doors
• Driving
• Using the bathroom (if you break both arms)

And a whole bunch of things.

While Furiosa in Mad Max kind of looked cool and kicked butt with her metallic arm, you can bet going to the bathroom with that thing strapped on has its fair share of challenges.

Breaking an arm takes away your confidence and self-esteem because you are dependent on others to get day-to-day stuff done.

When you’re shopping around for gifts for someone with a broken arm, look for something that gives them their independence back. In fact, if you’re looking into how to cheer up a kid with a broken arm, go for something that helps them do what they love without having to rely on others.

2. They Don’t Like Reliving The Moment They Broke Their Arm

A person with a cast on their arm spends pretty much every single minute outside answering one question: “How did you break your arm? Did you fall off a plane?”

No one wants to be reminded of how their forearm, or any other bone in their arm, went Snap! Pop! Crackle!

Just think about it. It was probably the single most physically painful moment in their lives. And no one seems to realize this because when we see a cast on someone’s arm, we instinctively ask them how it got there. It’s pretty much the same feeling someone in a wheelchair gets if everyone they met asked them how they ended up on the chair.

It’s insensitive and a bit rude to ask them how they broke their arm. Don’t surprise if they retorted with “Did YOU jump out of a plane?”

When you’re looking for broken wrist gift ideas, you might want to steer clear of anything that would make other people ask how the person broke his arm.

The right gifts for someone with a broken arm take the attention from the stiff cast on their arms and divert it to the actual person. This is probably why you shouldn’t be thinking of gifts for pc gamer boyfriend right after he fractures his arm. It only reminds him he can’t use his arm and draws all attention to his temporary disability.

3. It’s a Huge Pain to Take a Shower with a Cast on your Arm

You probably figured this out on your own, but let’s put it out there. The first thing cast wearers learn is how much of a struggle showering or taking a bath becomes. Right after the doc fastens the cast on an arm, he tells them “Don’t get it wet!”

Suddenly, they realize they’ll have to get a little creative in the bathroom for the next six weeks or till the bones mend. If they don’t get creative enough, the only feasible solution would be not showering until the cast comes off. Not an ideal practical solution, is it?

You can make their lives a little easier by finding gifts for someone with a broken arm. And we’re not talking about plastic bags here. Put some thought into it and come up with a practical gift that doesn’t say “I strolled through Wal-Mart and immediately I saw this plastic bag, I thought of you!”

4. Casts are Itchy

A couple of hours after getting a cast, whether it’s the plaster kind or the fiberglass kind, the skin under it tends to become irritated. A person feels so itchy that they’re literally willing to stick anything under the cast to scratch that itch. People have stuck forks, sticks, and a variety of kitchen utensils down their cast to send that nagging itch into oblivion.

But that does nothing more than pissing off the itch. It comes back with a vengeance making them want to constantly shove your favorite pancake spatula deep into the cast.

There are tons of things you can do to help them get rid of that itch. You can have them rest the arm on an elevated area using pillows to keep the limb from swelling up and making them itch. You can also apply ice on the affected arm or encourage them to keep on moving fingers on the injured limbs.

Allowing them to stick objects inside the cast to scratch that itch, while making the brain glee from the elevated serotonin levels can cause further injuries or infections.

As a matter of fact, we have the perfect gift guaranteed to get rid of that itch at the end of the article. 

That’s about it. You have all the knowledge you need to find the perfect gifts for someone with a broken arm.

But we want to make your search a bit easier by suggesting a few gifts that are not only practical but fun. Here they are: