ABSTRACT
History A 65-year-old woman attends her local accident and emergency department following a mechanical fall. While walking her dog this morning, she slipped on the icy pavement and fell forward, putting out her left hand to break her fall. She heard a ‘crack’ and had an instant sharp stabbing pain in her left wrist. Noticing an obvious deformity and experiencing severe pain on all movements, she called her husband who collected her and bought her to hospital.
