A new study demonstrates a low-cost method using a repurposed strength training tower to induce realistic distal radius ...

Your radius is one of the two bones in your forearm, along with the ulna. It’s the bone that attaches closest to your thumb. A radius fracture, sometimes called a radial fracture, is a break of this ...

A single-center cohort study finds infection is rare after volar locking plate fixation of closed distal radius fractures, ...

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 ...

A prospective randomized clinical trial shows that manual reduction provides no significant clinical or radiological ...

What is Distal Radius Fracture? The larger of the two bones of the forearm is known as radius. The end of the arm towards the wrist is called the distal end. When the area of the radius near the wrist ...

In elderly patients with distal radius fractures,“The initial reduction was good, but it redisplaced (loss of reduction) a few days later. Should I switch to surgery after all?”One might ...

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 ...

Elective plate removal after fracture union is common in adult orthopaedic trauma but remains poorly standardized. Expected benefit varies according to symptom specificity, anatomical site, patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand released updated ...

The following text summarizes information provided in the video. Familiarity with the terms used to describe the anatomy of the hand is important for clinical assessment. The terms “volar” and “palmar ...