Sports Medicine: Just the Facts

Posterior elbow associated abnormalities may include extra-articular olecrenon bursitis and intra-articular olecrenon fossa iss ...

CHAPTER 52 • SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE WRIST IN ATHLETES 299 Kraushaar BS, Nirschl RP, Cox W: A modified lateral approach for ...

synovectomy and cheilectomy of hypertrophic mar- gins that impinge during hyperextension. Return to sport may not be possible in ...

CHAPTER 52 • SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE WRIST IN ATHLETES 301 volar and dorsal radiocarpal ligaments must take place. As a resu ...

Carpal tunnel syndrome(CTS) can be caused by direct trauma, repetitive use, or anatomic anomalies. It is commonly seen in the do ...

CHAPTER 52 • SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE WRIST IN ATHLETES 303 only in de Quervain’s tenosynovitis (Eaton and Lister, 1992). A T ...

(Kiefhaber and Stern, 1992). Athletes will typically complain of pain and swelling distal to the ulnar head, worsened by resiste ...

CHAPTER 53 • SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE HAND IN ATHLETES 305 Blatt G: Capsulodesis in reconstructive hand surgery: Dorsal cap- ...

FINGERTIP INJURIES SUBUNGUAL HEMATOMA Many crush injuries to the fingertips will damage the nail and underlying matrix, causing ...

CHAPTER 53 • SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE HAND IN ATHLETES 307 Reduction is usually uncomplicated. Dynamic and static stability ...

a fall on an outstretched thumb with hyperabduction at the MCP joint. Patients present with tenderness and swelling over the uln ...

CHAPTER 53 • SOFT TISSUE INJURIES OF THE HAND IN ATHLETES 309 EXTENSOR TENDON SUBLUXATION AND DISLOCATION Extensor tendons usua ...

position and riding posture can help to prevent a recurrence. BOWLER’S THUMB •Bowler’s thumb involves recurrent trauma to the ul ...

CHAPTER 54 • WRIST AND HAND FRACTURES 311 Rettig AC: Wrist and hand overuse syndromes. Clin Sports Med 20:591, 2001. Rettig AC, ...

Comminuted or complex intra-articular fractures: Highly comminuted articular fractures with dorsal comminution and subchondral ...

CHAPTER 54 • WRIST AND HAND FRACTURES 313 HAMATE FRACTURES Hook or body of the hamate fractures is present in 2 to 4% of carpal ...

Symptomatic nonunion may be excised following the season (McCue, Bruce, and Koman, 2003). TRIQUETRUM FRACTURES •Triquetrum fra ...

CHAPTER 54 • WRIST AND HAND FRACTURES 315 (Rettig et al, 1998; Cordrey and Ferrer-Torells, 1974; Seitz, Jr, and Papandrea, 2001) ...

TREATMENT Isolated, minimally displaced fractures may be treated by closed methods similar to the treatment of trans- verse fra ...

CHAPTER 54 • WRIST AND HAND FRACTURES 317 be treated with arthodesis without significantly com- promising hand function (Palmer, ...