To establish whether or not treating children with a distal radius torus fracture with the offer of a soft bandage and immediate discharge (i.e. Given the large number of these injuries, identifying the optimal treatment strategy could have important effects on the child, the number of days of school absence and NHS costs. It is unclear if children require rigid immobilisation and follow-up or would recover equally as well by being discharged without any immobilisation or a bandage. Torus (buckle) fractures of the wrist are the most common fractures in children involving the distal radius and/or ulna. 10 Parents and Carers Forum, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK. ![]() ![]() 9 Emergency Department, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, UK.8 SAPPHIRE Group, Health Sciences, Leicester University, Leicester, UK.7 Paediatric Emergency Medicine Leicester Academic (PEMLA) Group, Children's Emergency Department, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester, UK.6 Centre for Health Economics at Warwick (CHEW), University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.5 Oxford Clinical Trials Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. ![]()
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