Post-traumatic Scapholunate Advanced Collapse of the Wrist: A Case Report.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The purpose of this report is to describe a patient with scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC) of the wrist.

Clinical features

A 38-year-old man presented to a chiropractic teaching clinic with right wrist pain after falling off of the tailgate of a truck 7 years prior. The mechanism of injury was a fall on an outstretched hand. Ultrasonography and radiography were performed, which demonstrated abnormal lunate kinematics and scapholunate interval diastasis associated with a clenched-fist maneuver. These findings were consistent with SLAC.

Intervention and outcome

Following the diagnosis of SLAC, the wrist was splinted. Conservative care consisting of physical therapy included paraffin dips, therapeutic ultrasound, and stretching. The patient received only mi

SUBMITTER: Ault DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6112069 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature