DOI: 10.36347/sajb.2020.v08i10.001

Pages: 309-314

Background: Fracture wrist in distal region is one of the most common fractures encountered in the orthopedics department. They can be anything from 8-17% of all skeletal injuries. Abraham Colles is credited with a description of the most famous fracture pattern affecting the distal end radius in year 1814 and is classically named after him. The fracture of Colles is clearly described as a metaphyseal injury to the cortico-cancellular junction (within 2−3 cm of the articular surface) of the distal radius with characteristic dorsal tilting, dorsal shifting, radial tilting, radial shifting, supination and impaction. Smith's fractures, also referred to as Colles' reverse fracture, have a palmar inclination of the distal piece. Methodology: Study was done prospectively from Jan 2019 – Feb 2020. On all patients meeting the inclusion criterion. Inclusion requirements were as follows: (1) patients who consented to be a part of the study, (2) patients presented within 3 weeks of injury, (3) patients with mature skeletons, and (4) patients who had no other related fractures in the upper ipsilateral limb. Exclusion criterion - Patients with comorbid conditions that preclude surgery or with local tissue conditions that make surgery inadvisable were removed from surgery. Data Processing and Analysis – Data was collected on standard template created on MS office Excel sheets. Data analysis was done on SPSS while using the standard measures of central tendency, various measures of association, and running the standard test for association like Chi square test. A p value of less than .05 was considered to be statistically significant. Result: In our study we found males participants to be the majority (male n=34, 61.5%) while most of them were following Hindu religion, were from Rural region and were BPL families. Majority the study participants had their right hand involved while most of the trauma types. We saw that most of the participants were offered below elbow pop cast .....