OFFTOPIC: Yeah, I too have done just a bit of research and they seem mildly effective at best. What is worse is that the small number of positive data collections all seem to have been done by a company that makes them, which make the data highly suspect. They are expensive too, this one will be $2,400 for a month. Now in my own case, as I have hit my max. 'out of pocket expense' for my plan for the year, the stimulator would be covered by Blue Cross. And yet after my research I refused it because it seemed a very poor value in relation to the cost, no matter WHO is paying for it; I am not interested in wasting anyone else's money anyway and just taking something because it is of no cost TO ME is irresponsible. But after my last appointment with the surgeon, he said that he does NOT recommend a bone stimulator for perhaps 98% of these types of fractures but he did so in my case because it was a collective break, it required bone grafting, and will be difficult to heal and he simply felt that he wanted to do everything possible, even with low success likelihood, to cause this fracture (fractures) to heal. If they do not, he will have to go back in and surgically support the bone (Easy Boys!) and I have to say, looking at the X- rays, that does not look like a cheerful proposition; if he straps the outside, it will leave material protruding from my hand / wrist and possible cause loss of tactile feedback, blood flow and probably arthritis. So I agreed to use the bone stimulator in the hope that it will be sufficient that more surgery will not be needed.
BTW: the bone stimulator supplier kept trying to tell me it would not cost me anything and I had a really hard time explaining that I understood that but choose not to waste money simply because it was not MY money I was wasting. She never heard that before and was quiet for a few moments.
Thanks for the well- wishes Gary!
Brian
Good luck with the stimulator. They get mixed reviews. It didn't help my wife's shattered elbow but seemed to work on the hairline fracture in her foot that she tried it on since she had it.