In this chapter we discuss the limited place that the nonsurgical treatment of isolated fractures of the radial shaft has at this time. Some fractures produced, not from a fall on the outstretched hand but from a direct blow, are appropriately treated with fictional braces, in anticipation of results similar to those obtained from “night-stick fractures” of the ulna. In the absence of distal or proximal radio-ulnar pathology the two groups behave similarly.