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Intraarticular Fracture – Step-off Danger!

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What is intraarticular fracture?

As you might have noticed, joint surfaces and their alignment are really important.

But it’s not just their alignment that matters. It’s also their quality and smoothness that is

really important. A lot of distal radius fractures actually happens right through the joint surfaces.

It means that the surface itself fractured and there was an opening, a gap. Now after the distal

radius is repositioned, it could happen that on that joint surface a step-off is present along

the lines of the fracture. If the step-off is higher than 2 millimeters, then a surgery might

be required to fix that.

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