My 3 year old daughter was playing with her older sister yesterday when she suddenly cried out in pain and clutched her wrist. My best description is the 3 year old was trying to crawl backwards while her older sister was trying to pull her forward while pulling her wrist. It swelled slightly within 30 minutes. I have given advil 3 times, and iced it yesterday while elevated. She refuses to move that arm and keeps it tucked firmly against her side. However I saw her sitting on the couch with it bent (voluntarily of course) at a 90 degree angle. I also saw her tapping the fingers of the injured hand. Last night I wrapped an elastic ace bandage around it and have kept it on since. There is no bruising and I don't believe there's any severe swelling because the area around the ace bandage isn't puffy. She won't wave and won't let us touch that hand.
Having had many sprains myself before, I want to believe that rest ice compression and elevation will help her body heal itself, but I'm also terrified there's a fracture that obviously I can't see. I also want to avoid any unnecessary trips to the doctor's office/urgent care facility because of all the serious germs going around.