What is a Colles’ Fracture? A Colles' fracture -- or distal radius fracture -- is often called a ''broken wrist.'' In France it’s sometimes called a “Pouteau-Colles” fracture.

A broken wrist or distal radius fracture is an extremely common type of fracture. It accounts for 25% to 50% of all broken bones and is most commonly seen in older females and young males.

It’s the mechanism behind many upper limb fractures. When you sense you are about to fall, you instinctively react by cocking your wrist and extending your arm to try to break the fall with your ...

Repeat radiographs (Figures 1 and 2) of the left wrist revealed a comminuted distal radius fracture with possible intra-articular extension but no significant displacement or angulation.

He ordered a CT scan “just to be sure.” The doctor then told me that the fracture extended into my wrist joint and I needed surgery. Does this sound right to you as I really do not want surgery?

Mathieu van der Poel has suffered a minor wrist fracture as a result of his double crash in the MTB World Series race in Nové Mesto, Alpecin-Deceuninck have said. The Dutch champion has been ...