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- Title
Stress fracture of the hamate body and fourth metacarpal base following military style push-ups: an unusual trauma mechanism.
- Authors
Busche, Marc; Knobloch, Karsten; Rosenthal, Herbert; Vogt, Peter
- Abstract
We report the case of a 19-year-old male soldier, who sustained stress fractures of the hamate body and fourth metacarpal base due to his daily knuckle push-up routine in the military. We introduce repetitive microtrauma due to daily knuckle push-ups as an unusual, but potential trauma mechanism for metacarpal and carpal stress fractures.
- Subjects
STRESS fractures (Orthopedics); CARPAL bones; MILITARY physical training &; conditioning; PHYSICAL education research; HEALTH of military personnel; WOUNDS &; injuries
- Publication
Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, 2008, Vol 16, Issue 12, p1158
- ISSN
0942-2056
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1007/s00167-008-0634-7