Fell today

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I slipped on mud today coming home from the park with my 10 month old pup and let go of his lead when I put my hand out to break my fall (I think I've sprained my wrist). He does not have good recall yet so is always on his lead and my immediate thought was that he'd run or keep going in the direction we were heading but no. The cutie ran right back to me before I even called him and put his front paws up on my chest staring in my face and I honestly couldn't love him more. Anyway is there anything I could get to attached the leash around my wrist so if that ever happened again I'd not drop it? I had such a moment of panic when I thought he'd run.

I think that would be excessively cautious. Hopefully more incidents like this one will help you to feel confident in dealing with the little unpredictable things that come up.
You don't want to get into a routine of fearful belt-and-braces disaster management all the time. You want to be working towards trusting him to deal with these sorts of incident appropriately.

I often use a walking belt for my spaniel. Means you keep your hands free, and you are less likely to be pulled off your feet or have the lead jerked out of your hand by a sudden lunge or attempted bolt.

I have a friend who walks her two bouncy little dogs on a waist belt. Honestly I wouldn't attach him to your wrist because if he did run he could potentially badly hurt your wrist. If he ran and pulled at your arm you might not be able to forcibly hold him back, or stop yourself toppling if you didn't follow. I imagine with a waist belt you would be able to dig your heals in and stop either of you moving without hurting yourself, should the need arise.

Waist belts are brilliant, I have a bad shoulder so use a belt and lead

Walk him in a secure area and let him off. It is hard to trust all will be well but you will never let him off if you are waiting for total recall first.

Yeah he gets off in secure areas to run around/train but that's it for now and we were on the walk back home from the park at the time so would always be on leash then anyway . Will look for a waist belt. Thanks so much everyone for commenting

True story - which albeit isn’t about attaching the lead to your wrist is about hanging onto it.
Our last, now very sadly deceased DDog had a high prey drive but couldn’t catch a cold.
I was walking her home one day and we spotted a cat. The fecking cat decided to run. If it had remained still everything would have been fine.
Previously the lead had been yanked out of my hand and on various occasions she lost the lead or it got stuck on things.
This time I hung on. To stop her running into a garden I grabbed a gatepost.
I managed to dislocate my shoulder. The cat owner (with cat) found me rolling about on her path in agony. DDog simply trotted back.
The other arm froze and I spent too long in physio.