Reduction and immobilization for Colles fracture

Maintenance of reduction in Colles fracture can be difficult to achieve. Some of the positions of the wrist in plaster designed to prevent redisplacement produce subsequent difficulty in the recovery of function of the wrist and hand. The author has practised a technique, in a large number of cases, using plaster with radial and dorsal indentations, which has proved capable of maintaining reduction with the wrist in a "physiological" or neutral position. The details of the technique are described and the end results in 162 patients are analysed.