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A distal radius fracture, also known as wrist fracture, is a break of the part of the radius bone which is close to the wrist. [1] Symptoms include pain, bruising, and rapid-onset swelling. [1] The ulna bone may also be broken. [1] In younger people, these fractures typically occur during sports or a motor vehicle collision. [2]
About 15% of people have a Colles' fracture at some point in their life. [3] They occur more commonly in young adults and older people than in children and middle-aged adults. [3] Women are more frequently affected than men. [3] The fracture is named after Abraham Colles who described it in 1814. [3]
Anatomical snuff box. People with scaphoid fractures generally have snuffbox tenderness.. Focal tenderness is usually present in one of three places: 1) volar prominence at the distal wrist for distal pole fractures; 2) anatomic snuff box for waist or midbody fractures; 3) distal to Lister's tubercle for proximal pole fractures.
A Barton's fracture is a type of wrist injury where there is a broken bone associated with a dislocated bone in the wrist, typically occurring after falling on top of a bent wrist. [1] It is an intra-articular fracture of the distal radius with dislocation of the radiocarpal joint .
Chauffeur's fracture; Other names: Hutchinson fracture, backfire fracture: Fracture of the radial styloid process with the fracture line extending into the intraarticular surface: X-ray of a displaced intra-articular distal radius fracture in an external fixator. The articular surface is widely displaced and irregular. This is a Chauffeur's ...
Eleven days after Cincinnati Reds first baseman Christian Encarnacion-Strand suffered a fracture in his right wrist, he discovered the full extent of the injury and landed on the 10-day injured list.
Fracture with a dorsal tilt. Dorsal is left, and volar is right in the image. There are a number of ways to classify distal radius fractures.Classifications systems are devised to describe patterns of injury which will behave in predictable ways, to distinguish between conditions which have different outcomes or which need different treatments.
On Nov. 16, the comedian was injured after hitting his head on a rock at the bottom of a hill. Jay Leno is still on the mend after falling 60-ft. down a hill.. On Thursday, Nov. 21, the former The ...