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A 35-year-old woman presents to an urgent care center with severe right wrist pain after a fall onto her outstretched hand after tripping on the sidewalk. She has significant pain throughout the range of motion as well as at rest. She has minimal numbness of the fingers. She has no other visible injuries, and on questioning, she reports that she has no elbow, shoulder, head, or neck pain.
View the image taken (Figure 1) and consider what your diagnosis would be.
Wrist Pain After Tripping and Falling
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