Abstract

DELGADO RIFA, ERACLIO  and  ESCALONA ZALDIVAR, RACIEL. Advantages of supination in Colles´ fracture. Rev Cubana Ortop Traumatol [online]. 1998, vol.12, n.1-2, pp. 52-56. ISSN 1561-3100.

A prospective study of 90 patients with the diagnosis of Colles´ fracture that attended the "Dr. Ernesto Guevara de la Serna" Hospital, in Las Tunas, from January, 1993, to January, 1996, was conducted. Similar amounts of patients immbolized with different procedures and positions were compared. The deforming action of the long supinator muscle in the physiopathology of this fracture was proved, as well as the advantages of the brachial plaster cast and of supination in its treatment, on avoinding the relapse of the displacement in 93.3 % of the patients treated with this method and the inferior radiocubital luxation, which is the most frequent of the complications that appears with the application of other procedures. The supination reduces the time of rehabilitation and improves the anatomical and functional results of this injury. The high index of redislocation observed among patients treated with conventional antebrachial plaster cast is stressed.

Keywords : COLLES´ FRACTURE [therapy]; SUPINATION.

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