A broken wrist or distal radius fracture is an extremely common type of fracture. It accounts for 25% to 50% of all broken bones and is most commonly seen in older females and young males.

A radius fracture, sometimes called a radial fracture, is a break of this bone. A distal radius fracture is a break in the part of the bone closest to your wrist. Your doctor may refer to it as a ...

Radial head fractures are frequently caused by trauma ... elbow instability due to associated elbow dislocation or acute distal radio-ulnar joint dislocation (DRUJ). Three illustrative cases ...

This protects your face, head, and back from injury ... the radius bone takes the force of impact resulting in a distal radius fracture (Colles’ or Smith fracture). A FOOSH injury commonly ...

What is a Colles’ Fracture? A Colles' fracture -- or distal radius fracture -- is often called a ''broken wrist.'' In France it’s sometimes called a “Pouteau-Colles” fracture.

Information on play circumstances and subsequent clinical progress was documented. Results—Twenty nine fractures of the distal radius were identified in young goalkeepers (age range 6–15 years) as a ...

The ROIs included the metacarpal head (MH), metacarpal mid-shaft (MS) and ultra-ultra-distal (UUD) radius sites. To assess short-term precision with repositioning, we acquired two additional ...