A broken wrist is what we often call a Colles fracture. Despite this, it is the radius bone in the forearm that breaks and not the carpal bones of the wrist. The radius is the larger of the two bones ...

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 ...

A Colles fracture is a break in one of the forearm bones near the wrist that commonly requires physical therapy after a period of immobilization. The exercises used in physical therapy are focused on ...

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 ...

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 ...