2.  Also known as Extra- Articular Distal Radius Fracture  Found in 1814  Irish surgeon and anatomist › Abraham Colles

3.  Distal Radius  Radio-carpal Joint

4.  Occurs when a person falls on their outstretched hand  Radius breaks in half towards Radio- carpal joint › Broken part of the Radius points upward  Osteoporosis › Bone is more fragile and more likely to break › Can make a minor fall into a broken wrist

6.  Pain  Tenderness  Bruising  Swelling  Deformity › Wrist is bent in an odd way

7.  First Aid › Splint › Ice pack › Doctor’s examination needed  Treatment › Plaster cast, Re-align bone › Splint at 1 st then cast › X-ray › Surgery (only if bone is out of place so much that cast can’t correct it)

9.  Physical Therapy › Some Stiffness › Goes away after a couple of weeks, improvements can take up to 2 years  Swimming & exercising the lower body after 1-2 months of the cast being removed  Vigorous Exercise after 3-6 months of injury  Recovery Expected to take at least 1 year

10.  American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. "Distal Radius Fractures (Broken Wrist)-OrthoInfo - AAOS." Distal Radius Fractures (Broken Wrist)-OrthoInfo - AAOS. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Mar. 2013. Web. 11 May 2013..  Dr Ian Bickle and Dr Paresh K Desai Et Al. "Colles Fracture." Radiopaedia.org, the Wiki-based Collaborative Radiology Resource. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 May 2013..  Jonathan Cluett. "Colles' Fracture." About.com Orthopedics. About.com, 31 July 2003. Web. 11 May 2013..