Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . One of the most common fractures a patient can experience is a distal radius fracture. In Europe, orthopaedic ...

Researchers are re-evaluating the treatment of distal radius fractures. At the Orthopaedic Trauma Association’s annual meeting, researchers in the field discussed the factors behind this change and ...

Arthroscopy has a certain mystique. Crisp images. Intra-articular glamour. The sense that if you see more, you must be fixing more. For distal radius fractures, however, this systematic review and ...

Distal radius fractures is the most common fracture in childhood. [1] Most of these fractures are treated conservatively in a plaster and complications are rare. Although these fractures generally are ...

That’s exactly the kind of case that marked the first clinical use of the Acu-Loc NEXT Wrist Fixation System, recently performed at Duke University Hospital by David Ruch, M.D., and Marc Richard, M.D.

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 ...

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 ...

Smith & Nephew plans to launch its D-RAD SMART PACK System for treating distal radius fractures at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand annual meeting in Boston. The new system includes four, ...

A woman, aged 58 years, suffered a fragility fracture when she slipped and fell on the ice, breaking her distal radius. By definition, this fracture classifies her as having osteoporosis. However, the ...

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 ...

A broken wrist, or wrist fracture, typically causes immediate swelling, pain, and tenderness. The wrist consists of eight small bones that connect to two long bones in the forearm: the ulna and the ...