Bearded Dragon Arm Swollen

[Kristian]

Last night my beardie jumped on my phone and fell on him, he's still very young and I got very concerned, his right arm got swollen, though he's moving it fine. He's acting the same I'm just a little worried, any course of action I can do?

 

[AHBD]

Hi Kristian, can you post a few pics of him ? Here's how :
https://www.beardeddragon.org/useruploads/ Then use the XIMG to upload them

If he gets around fine it's probably just a sprain, but keep his basking areas low in his tank so he doesn't jump from too high up at any time.

 

[EllenD]

Can you please post a photo of your beardie and a close-up of his arm, so we can see his size and what the injury looks like? It may just need time to heal because it's a bad bruise, or he may need to see an experienced reptile vet ASAP for an x-ray...we can't really advise you without seeing him.

 

[Kristian]

I just posted them, his right arm is the swollen one, left is a comparison to how it was originally looking

 

[EllenD]

If you uploaded the photos to your account, you need to make a reply post and then hit the XIMG button above, then select the photo, and it will be inserted into the body of the post.

 

[Kristian]

 

[kingofnobbys]

I suspect he has a sprain or a hairline fracture (broken bone) in his arm.

A visit to the vet for high resolution x-rays will confirm this , he's very young so they will likely just put the arm in a cast to immobilize it and get him onto painrelief injections and vet grade liquid calcium to help with bone mending.

He's probably too little to insert a pin , but that would be best option - to ensure good bone alignment and mending if there is a break.

No more climbing / leaping for him til the arm is good.

 

[Drache613]

Hello,

Poor guy! I am sure he likely sprained the arm/wrist area, or broke it possibly but, I hope not!
Can you get him to a vet to help with diagnosing it & treating it to help with immobilizing it?
Be sure to keep everything lowered in his tank to where he wont have to climb & hurt his arm
more.
Let us know how he is doing.

Tracie