Recovery and Rehabilitation after Minor Fractures

This study had the aim of exploring patients' needs for rehabilitation and aftercare after 'minor' fractures.

The study population consisted of 171 patients. aged 18 to 59 inclusive, with a diagnosis of fracture, who were seen at a trauma clinic in one general hospital in Dover, and who had not been admitted to hospital as inpatients because of their injury. Each respondent was interviewed up to six times in the year after' the injury. The diagnoses that were

most common in the series were fractures of the lower end of radius, metacarpals, phalanges of the hand, metatarsals and toes.