The Value of Early Mobilization and Physiotherapy Following Wrist Fractures Treated by Volar Plating

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Gustilo-Anderson type III open fractures
• •2. Previous distal radius/ulna-fracture and/or disabling hand injury of the same extremity
• •3. Previous distal radius fracture or other disabling injury to the contralateral side
• •4. Dementia or other psychiatric illness which affect compliance
• •5. Congenital anomaly
• •6. Bilateral radius fracture
• •7. Concurrent fractures to the upper or lower extremities or other illness which affect movement of the extremities
• •8. Systemic joint disease such as rheumatoid arthritis
• •9. Patients who do not speak Norwegian
• •10. Pathological fracture other than osteoporotic fracture
• •11. Congenital bone disease (for example osteogenesis imperfecta)
• •12. Age below 18 and above 70
• •13. Patients not belonging to Akershus University Hospital