Two-time Group 1 winner Soul Rush will miss the summer racing season with a fracture to his left fourth metacarpal bone, or splint bone, reports Daily Sports.

Bennett’s and Rolando fractures represent challenging intra‐articular injuries of the base of the first metacarpal. Bennett’s fractures typically involve an oblique fracture line that ...

Two-time Group 1 winner Soul Rush will miss the summer racing season with a fracture to his left fourth metacarpal bone, or splint bone, reports Daily Sports. The 7-year-old by Rulership ran in ...

At most institutions, oblique radiographs are included as part of the standard wrist and hand exam to increase sensitivity to carpal, metacarpal, and phalangeal fractures, respectively (Fig. 2).

The top three are stress fractures, shin splints, and chronic exertional compartment syndrome (CECS). All result in leg pain worsened with activity. All have a gradual onset.

Treatment for forearm fractures is almost always operative, but nonoperative management can be used in specific cases — usually for an isolated ulna fracture. What is a forearm fracture? The forearm ...

Carpometacarpal (CMC) joint arthroplasty is a surgery used to treat thumb arthritis when other treatments fail. The procedure involves removing the trapezium, a small wrist bone that supports the ...

Background: Intramedullary screws (IMS) have become a viable option for metacarpal fracture fixation. To further appraise their utility, this study assessed clinical and patient-reported short- and ...

Spasm of accommodation is the sudden development of a considerable degree of myopia which disappears after cycloplegia, usually functional in origin.1 Bohlmann and France2 reported a patient with ...

The purpose of our study is to retrospectively compare the use of tension band (TB) wiring and dorsal plating (DP) for the fixation of fifth metacarpal (MC) neck fractures. A retrospective study of ...