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Bent my bars and my wrist

Author: John Rolshoven, MD
Peer-Reviewer: Alex Adelman, MD; Jason Taporco, MD, MPH; Will Denq, MD, CAQ-SM
Final Editor: Alex Tomesch, MD, CAQ-SM

A 32-year-old female presents to the ED for right wrist pain after a crash in a rock garden during a downhill mountain biking race. She has significant pain in her right wrist but denies any other pain or symptoms including numbness or tingling.

  

Image 1. Three view right wrist plain radiograph. Radiopedia example: Case courtesy of J Jones, Radiopaedia.org, rID:8981

 

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