BACKGROUND Patients presenting with low-trauma wrist fractures are an ideal target population for early case finding of osteoporosis. We decided to investigate whether this early detection occurred in practice. METHODS This study was conducted at a single center in Edmonton, Alberta. A structured interview format was used to contact 112 (72%) of 156 patients older than 40 years who were diagn...

In a prospective study, 204 consecutive patients with displaced Colles' fractures had closed reduction then plaster immobilisation. Three different positions of the wrist in plaster were randomly allocated: palmar flexion, neutral and dorsiflexion. The results in the three groups were compared. Fractures immobilised with the wrist in dorsiflexion showed the lowest incidence of redisplacement, e...

Aim We further evaluated associations between steroid injections and osteoporotic fracture risk by analyzing the Medicare database and including large joint and transforaminal steroid injections; as well as osteoporotic hip and wrist fractures. A systemic effect would increase risk in all fracture locations regardless of injection site. A local effect would result in a disproportionate increase...

and a severely displaced left supracondylar fracture in which the upper fragment had at one point penetrated the skin of the grossly swollen antecubital region. There was no pulse at the wrist, but the colour of the hand was good and nerve function normal. A cautious attempt was made to reduce the fracture. This was unsuccessful; the upper fragment could not be moved back from its subcutaneous ...

Distal radius fractures in young adults are associated with high-energy trauma and elderly people low-energy falls. One of the distal is Barton Fracture (BF), a radiocarpal fracture-luxation whose production mechanism usually varies, most common being fall on an extended pronated wrist. We present 27-year-old male patient epiphysis injury dislocation following blunt trauma. Timely osteosynthesi...

Some mal-alignment of the wrist occurs in up to 71% of patients following a distal radius fracture. A multiple case study was used to provide proof of principle of an image-based technique to investigate the evolution and impact of post-traumatic joint changes at the distal radioulnar joint. Participants who had a unilateral distal radius fracture who previously participated in a prospective st...

Background: Fragility fractures (FF) are that result from mechanical forces would not ordinarily in fracture, known as low-level (or ‘low energy’) trauma. 1 Studies have shown history of wrist fracture increases the risk for subsequent FF. 2 Objectives: To assess predictive factors FF occurring after a fracture. Methods: Retrospective monocentric study included patients with observed at emergen...

Avulsion fractures of the radial wrist extensor from the metacarpal base are rare injuries, and have previously been reported in only a few papers. Although 2 cases of closed rupture of the extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) were mentioned in 1 report, no case of avulsion fracture of the ECU from its insertion was found in the literature. We recently encountered such a case. The patient, a machine op...

BACKGROUND Distal radius fractures are among the most common fractures and account for approximately one-sixth of all fractures diagnosed. Therapy results after distal radius fracture, especially of elderly patients, are often suboptimal. The inevitable immobilization for several weeks leads to reduction in range of motion, deterioration of muscle strength, malfunction of fine motor skills as w...