The popularity of snowboarding has brought awareness to injuries sustained during the sport. Wrist injuries are among the most common injuries, and there is an interest in using protective equipment to prevent these injuries. The purpose of this study was to review the literature on wrist guard use, injury prevention, the biomechanical effects of wrist guards, and the various types of wrist gua...

This study reports an objective assessment of postoperative function of 11 triple transfers for high radial palsies, using pronator teres for wrist extension, flexor carpi ulnaris for finger extension and palmaris longus for thumb extension. The mean follow-up was 3.3 years. Assessment was done by recording the active ranges of wrist motion, grip strength, wrist and finger strength and work sim...

The fracture most commonly treated by orthopaedic surgeons is that of the distal radius. However, as yet there is no consensus on what constitutes an 'acceptable' radiological position before or after treatment. This should be defined as the position that will predict good function in the majority of cases. In this paper we review the radiological indices that can be measured in fractures of th...

Methods 17-year-old female gymnast, left hand dominant, started hand therapy 8 weeks after a vascularised medial femoral trochlea osteochrondral flap reconstruction to her right wrist. Initial status, 8 weeks post-operation: AROM fingers full; AROM wrist extension 20°; AROM wrist flexion 15°; AROM wrist radial deviation 8°; AROM wrist ulnar deviation 8°; AROM pronation 70°; AROM supination 90°;...

This report is of a 32 year old man who presented with complains of pain, swelling and deformity of right wrist of four weeks duration. He gave history of road traffic accident four weeks back leading to injury to right wrist; Preoperative radiographs and C.T. scan images were suggestive of trans-scaphoid dislocation of the proximal row of wrist. A volar and dorsal approach were used to reduce ...

The hand and wrist are rare sites for tuberculosis (TB) and account for < 1% of all skeletal TB. Though rare, TB of the wrist is a cause of major morbidity. A common feature in the available reports on wrist TB is a delay in diagnosis causing residual stiffness and pain after treatment. Although TB of the wrist has a varied presentation, the majority of lesions respond to conservative treatment...

From a mechanical point of view, the wrist represents the most complex joint in the body, providing a large range of motion in the flexion-extension (FE) and radial-ulnar-deviation (RUD) planes. Anatomically, the wrist could be divided into two carpal rows. Deeper insight into wrist biomechanics is highly desirable, because the complex wrist structure causes a variety of possible injuries and t...

The wrist is a complex anatomical structure composed of 3 joints: radiocarpal, midcarpal and distal radioulnar joints these joints provide relatively little bony stability. The stability of the wrist is provided by the soft tissues. Rheumatoid arthritis is a disease of the soft tissues. It affects the synovium and therefore most of these stabilizing structures of the wrist causing pain, deformi...

Ancient Indian Ayurveda has used the palpation of the pulse at the wrist under the thumb to analyze physical health. In the nineteenth century, analysis of the contour of the peripheral pulse to assess arterial properties was first described. With the recognition of the importance of arterial stiffness there has been a resurrection of interest in pulse wave analysis. The non-invasive evaluation...