Hand/Wrist News

Postmenopausal women who sustain any type of initial fracture are at a higher risk for a subsequent fracture, according to a study published in EClinicalMedicine.

For patients with nonsurgically treated Colles’ fractures, ibuprofen reduced pain without causing changes in fragment migration or functional, densitometrical and biochemical outcomes, according to published results.

The rate of overexertion-related work-related musculoskeletal disorder claims among construction workers rose and then fell with increasing patient age, according to published results.

HHS has released new practice guidelines to expand access to buprenorphine for opioid use disorder.

Work-related carpal tunnel syndrome is more prevalent in those who do labor-intensive work compared with clerical work; however, overall rates have decreased across all industries from 2003 to 2018, according to published results.

A combination of conservative treatments offered patients with thumb base osteoarthritis “small to medium and potentially clinically beneficial effects on hand function but not pain,” researchers wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Register results showed worse DASH scores at 1 year for patients with combined distal radius and distal ulnar fractures vs. those with any type of distal radius fracture, a presenter said at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting.

Prescription monitoring program data, “a vital tool to help combat the potential harms associated with prescription opioid misuse,” were underutilized by health care professionals, researchers wrote in Pain Medicine.

Aside from the hand, the most common level of amputation in the upper extremity is the transradial amputation; and these injuries typically result from major trauma.

Grip, key and tip pinch strength was reduced during 6-year follow-up in patients with carpometacarpal joint changes, osteoarthritis and volar beak recession, results presented at the Orthopaedic Research Society Annual Meeting showed.