A Colles’ wrist fracture occurs when the radius bone in your forearm breaks. It’s also known as a distal radius fracture, transverse wrist fracture, or a dinner-fork deformity of the wrist. It’s named ...

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 ...

A Colles fracture happens when you fall onto an outstretched hand, breaking the radius bone near the wrist. After ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hong Kong, China--A new study presented today at the IOF Regionals 4th Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting in Hong Kong supports widespread evidence that individuals who have suffered a fracture are at ...