The scaphoid is a small bone of the wrist that is located at the base of the thumb, immediately above the radius bone, where the wrist bends. It is seen when the thumb is held in a hitch-hiking or ...

This week we are going to leave the leg and move into the upper extremity (arm) to discuss a condition that occurs in the wrist and can be significantly debilitating—the scaphoid fracture. The ...

This study was conducted prospectively and approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Taipei city hospital. Fifty two distal radius fractures were enclosed in this study between January 2009 and ...

1 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedics, University Hospital, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK 2 Department of Orthopaedics, University Hospital Aintree, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK ...

People often fracture or break the bones in their hands or wrists after traumatic injuries. Fractures can cause pain and swelling around the injury. Fractures can also change the position of your ...

For this month’s 4 Questions interview, I asked Donald S. Bae, MD, to share some of his recent work and insights into pediatric scaphoid fractures. How many of these do you see in a year? My point is ...

Radiologic evaluation of sports injuries of the wrist and hand should commence with plain radiographs. Although plain radiography provides information in only two dimensions and cannot give detailed ...

A 72-year-old woman was originally seen by her primary care physician for left wrist pain after a ground level fall. Due to persistent pain and swelling, the patient underwent radiographs. Steven D.

Cycling to the shops one morning, I was a few streets from home when a student driving a hatchback pulled out without looking and hit me, throwing me in the air. As I fell, I stretched out my right ...