Patients
fractures
In this parallel-designed randomised clinical trial, patients who were attending the hospital emergency department with acute unilateral distal radius fractures were randomly recruited by our hand surgeon (A. M). A priori sample size compute was conducted using G*power 3.1.9.4, with the effect size of 0.84. Based on a similar RCT study result for palmar tilt [Flow chart presenting parallel randomised trial of two groups