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 ...

The scaphoid bone is one of the eight smaller carpal bones in your wrist. It lies on the thumb side of your wrist right below the radius, one of the two larger bones in your forearm. It’s involved in ...

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 ...

A scaphoid fracture involves a break of one of the bones on the thumb side of the wrist. The scaphoid bone plays a role in the ability to move the wrist joint. There are surgical and nonsurgical ...

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 ...

Navicular fractures can occur in the middle of the foot. They also occur in the wrist, as one of the eight carpal bones at the base of the hand is also known as the scaphoid or navicular bone. A ...

For this month’s 4 Questions interview, I asked Donald S. Bae, MD, to share some of his recent work and insights into pediatric scaphoid fractures. How many of these do you see in a year? My point is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Evidence from a major study published in Lancet showed most scaphoid waist fractures achieve union with casting ...

What is a fractured scaphoid? The scaphoid is one of the small group of bones in the wrist called the calcarpel bones. It is the most common carpel bone to fracture among athletes and is often caused ...

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 ...