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About a painful wrist after a forced dorsiflexion trauma
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  1. Oscar Thabouillot,
  2. Didier Ollat
  1. Emergency Department, Bégin Military Hospital, Saint-Mandé, France
  1. Correspondence to Dr Oscar Thabouillot, Emergency Department, Bégin Military Hospital, 69 avenue de Paris, 94160 Saint-Mandé, France; thabouillot{at}hotmail.com

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Clinical introduction

A young adult without medical history was admitted a day following right wrist trauma. He fell from a height of three stairs with forced dorsiflexion of his wrist, and complained of severe pain and functional disability.

Clinical examination revealed a mildly swollen wrist with tenderness on dorsal palpation. …

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