Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . For patients with nonsurgically treated Colles’ fractures, ibuprofen reduced pain without causing changes in ...

Management of Colle’s fracture depends on the degree of its severity. A simple cast or a protective splint may be sufficient to support the fracture if there is no displacement of the bone or if the ...

The Colles Fracture, named after Sir Abraham Colles, who first described the injury in 1814, is a fracture of the distal radius (the long bone of the forearm on the thumb side) and is the most common ...

Colle's fracture is a wrist fracture which occurs within an inch of the wrist joint involving the forearm bone's distal end of the radius. The fracture runs transversely just above the wrist joint and ...

A new study showed that patients with Colles' fracture are at higher risk than patients with osteoporosis to have a subsequent hip fracture within one year; Colles' fracture and osteoporosis together ...

Have you ever experienced a broken wrist following a fall on an outstretched arm giving rise to a swollen wrist which is so painful? This type of a fracture is called a Colles’ fracture, named after ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new study showed that patients who suffered a Colles’ fracture are six times more likely than controls to ...

December 9, 2009 — Primary care evaluation and management of forearm fracture in adults, which is a common injury in this age group, is presented in a review published in the December issue of ...

In the event of an acute injury with a questionable fracture, should a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) be given before the patient is evaluated by an orthopaedist? I have heard there is ...

I was running recently in Central Park and am embarrassed to say that I tripped over my own two feet and fell on my outstretched right arm. I had immediate pain and swelling. But being the runner that ...