http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/97565-overview & http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/97565-print
Author: Bryan C Hoynak, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California at Irvine School of Medicine; Director of Emergency Services, Chairman of Division of Emergency Medicine, Placentia-Linda Hospital
Author: Bryan C Hoynak, MD, FACEP, FAAEM, Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of California at Irvine School of Medicine; Director of Emergency Services, Chairman of Division of Emergency Medicine, Placentia-Linda Hospital
Introduction
Background
The carpus, or wrist, is a complex joint that provides abduction and adduction in the frontal plane of the upper extremity, extension and flexion for hand movements, and supination and pronation in the coronal plane.
In the early 1800s, Colles was the first to differentiate between wrist fractures and wrist dislocations.
