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Two Broken Wrists By Ricardo Nunes During a mountain bike trip to the French Alps in July 2007, I had a big fall from a second floor balcony (no, unfortunately it was not a bike crash!). I broke both wrists, the scaphoid bone from my right hand and also some bones from my face. Yes, it was quite a very big tumble! In fact I suppose I´m lucky to still be alive! What is a broken wrist? When someone falls on their outstretched hand, and the wrist suffer a big impact against some hard surface, they sometimes get a "broken wrist." The bone that is most commonly broken is called the radius.The end toward the wrist is called the distal end. The medical term for "broken bone" is fracture. Therefore, the medical term for the most common type of "broken wrist" is a distal radius fracture (in other words, the larger forearm bone is broken near the wrist). Contributor's Note This is an excerpt from my Broken Wrists Hub @ Hubpages http://hubpages.com/_funride/hub/BROKEN-WRISTS

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X-ray from my wrists

Contributed by Ricardo on June 5, 2008, at 2:56 PM UTC.

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