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 ...

Fracture: A fracture is a break in the bone or cartilage. Fractures are also named by the trauma event that cause the bone breakage. Chronic pain: Pain that occurs of long duration pain. Arthritis: A ...

Q: What is unique about scaphoid fracture? A: Most of the time the patient feels that only a sprain has taken place. Besides, deformity is uncommon in these fractures. A: When a bone is displaced it ...

This week we are going to discuss scaphoid fractures in the wrist. The scaphoid is a peanut shaped bone on the thumb side of the wrist. When a fall on an outstretched hand (FOOSH) occurs, the patient ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Matthew M. Malerich, MD, followed up on a paper he presented in 1995, by revisiting his distal scaphoid ...

Plaster casts are just as effective at healing certain types of wrist fractures as surgery, new research suggests. A cast should be used for scaphoid waist fractures in the wrist in the first instance ...

The scaphoid bone is one of the eight small bones that comprise the carpal bones of the wrist. The carpal bones consist of two rows — one closer to the hand, the other row closer to the forearm. The ...

MRI is a form of nonionizing radiation that allows imaging of bone marrow, soft tissues (including cartilage, ligaments, and tendons) and neurovascular structures in three planes (Fig. 18). Images are ...