A 35-year-old woman presents to an urgent care center with severe right wrist pain after a fall onto her outstretched hand after tripping on the sidewalk. She has significant pain throughout the range of motion as well as at rest. She has minimal numbness of the fingers. She has no other visible injuries, and on questioning, she reports that she has no elbow, shoulder, head, or neck pain. View the image taken (Figure 1) and …
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A 62-year-old woman presents with left wrist pain that began after she fell onto her outstretched left hand earlier in the morning while walking her dog. She has wrist pain throughout the range of motion, as well as some pain in her hand. She sustained no injuries to her head or neck, and she has no head pain, neck pain, chest pain, or shortness of breath.
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