Radiographic and clinical outcomes of muenster and sugar tong splints for distal radius fractures: a comparative study

Table 4 Effect of each splint in an individual (individually paired exam)

	Sugar tong splint	d*	P-value	Muenster splint	d*	P-value
Radial height (mm)	12.1 ± 2.9 → 11.1 ± 2.6	0.362	0.030	11.3 ± 2.0 → 10.3 ± 1.8	0.524	< 0.001†
Ulnar variance (mm)	0.8 ± 1.3 → 1.0 ± 1.9	0.119	0.104	1.0 ± 1.7 → 1.6 ± 1.8	0.342	0.005†
Radial inclination (°)	23.4 ± 4.6 → 22.1 ± 4.9	0.273	0.014	22.5 ± 3.9 → 21.8 ± 3.9	0.179	0.101†
Volar tilt (°)	7.0 ± 8.6 → 5.9 ± 10.1	0.117	0.171†	3.8 ± 8.8 → 2.3 ± 8.1	0.177	0.334†

Because of non-normal distribution, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test was used
†Paired t-test was performed as it was matched to a normal distribution
*d means Cohen’s d. Cohen’s d is an effect size used to indicate the standardised difference between two means
Variables are presented as mean ± standard deviation. Statistically significant values are in bold

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