Personalized medicine, not X-rays, should guide forearm fracture treatment in older adults

(Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan) A decade-long study of distal radius fracture revealed that personalized medicine catering to a patient's individual needs and environment, not age or X-rays, should guide treatment options. This federally funded study is the most intense, collaborative effort to answer a 200-year puzzle about how to treat the most common forearm fracture in older adults.