Children with distal radius fractures face some of the same complications as adults, including malunion, compartment syndrome and acute carpal tunnel syndrome, but these complications are much rarer.

Complex distal radius fractures involving soft tissue injuries can be more challenging to manage in multiply injured patients. Extra attention must be given to fragment identification, plate selection ...

This week we are going to start a series of commonly missed orthopedic injuries throughout the body. The first one we are going to discuss today is the DRUJ injury. The DRUJ injury is an injury of the ...

Fractures of the distal radius are among the most common of musculoskeletal injuries; they occur at a rate of approximately 2 such injuries per 1000 individuals per year. As with most fractures, there ...

It is know that patients with intra-articular fractures with more than 2 mm incongruence have been found to get joint degeneration after 6.7 years, [26] the same goes for fractures with more than 10° ...

Intra-articular fractures of the distal radius (IFDR) represent high energy, complex, unstable injuries, and account for approximately one-sixth of the fractures observed in emergency rooms. 1,2 The ...

Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers' wrist injury update offers hope for Week 12 against the Bears. Despite a distal radius ...

Fracture: A fracture is a break in the bone or cartilage. Fractures are also named by the trauma event that cause the bone breakage. Bone Healing: Otherwise known as fracture healing, bone healing is ...

1 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK ...

A 58-year-old, right-hand dominant woman fell in the shower and injured her left wrist. She was seen 3 days later at an outside emergency department (ED) where radiographs were obtained. Her wrist was ...