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Boxer’s Fracture: The Punch Injury Explained
Quick answer: A boxer’s fracture is a break in the neck of the fifth metacarpal, the bone leading up to your little finger knuckle, almost always caused by punching with poor fist alignment, whether that’s a bag, an opponent, or an unfortunate wall. It’s one of the most common hand fractures seen in combat sports,…
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TFCC Injury: The Wrist Ligament Tear Athletes Miss
Quick answer: A TFCC injury is damage to the triangular fibrocartilage complex, a small but genuinely important cushion of cartilage and ligament on the little-finger side of the wrist, usually caused by a fall onto an outstretched hand, a forceful twisting motion, or gradual wear over time. It’s a genuinely under-recognised injury, often missed on…
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Wrist Sprain: Grades, Symptoms And Recovery
Quick answer: A wrist sprain is an injury to one of the ligaments supporting the wrist joint, usually caused by falling onto an outstretched hand or twisting the wrist during sport, and it ranges from a mild stretch to a complete ligament tear. Most wrist sprains genuinely do settle well with the right grade-appropriate treatment,…
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Scaphoid Fracture: Why This Wrist Break Gets Missed
Quick answer: A scaphoid fracture is a break in one of the small bones on the thumb side of the wrist, usually caused by a fall onto an outstretched hand, and it’s notorious for being genuinely difficult to see on an initial X-ray. Up to a quarter of true scaphoid fractures look completely normal on…