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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...