DISTAL RADIUS FRACTURE

This study is testing whether placing a special dissolvable gel between a metal plate and wrist tendons can improve healing after wrist fracture surgery. Researchers will compare 50 patients who receive the gel during surgery to those who do not. They will measure how well the te…

This study is testing if simply putting a cast on a broken wrist works as well as the standard method of realigning the bone first. It involves 532 people aged 65 and older who broke their wrist in a simple fall. The main goal is to see if both methods lead to similar levels of p…

This study is testing if a home-based light therapy device can help people recover faster after surgery for a broken wrist. Forty-two participants will use either a real or a fake device daily for 12 weeks, along with standard exercises. Researchers will measure pain, wrist funct…

This study is testing whether encouraging people with a broken wrist to carefully use their hand for daily tasks while it's still in a cast leads to better recovery. Researchers will compare two groups: one gets standard cast care instructions, and the other gets extra guidance o…

This study compares two ways to inject numbing medicine for wrist fractures. One method uses ultrasound to guide the needle, while the other is done by feel. Researchers want to see if using ultrasound helps provide better pain relief for adults when their broken wrist is being s…

This study aims to understand if a patient's fear of moving and re-injuring their wrist (called kinesiophobia) can predict how well they recover from a broken wrist treated without surgery. Researchers will measure this fear using a questionnaire and then track patients' wrist mo…