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Fall on Outstretched Hand
Aka: Fall on Outstretched Hand, FOOSH
- See Also
- Hand Injury
- Imaging
- Wrist XRay (or ulna-radius xray)
- Consider Scaphoid XRay views
- Hand XRay with Carpal Tunnel view (if thenar or hypothenar eminence pain)
- Hypothenar eminence region (Fracture associated with Ulnar Nerve injury in Guyon's canal)
- Hook of hamate Fracture
- Pisiform Fracture
- Thenar eminence region
- Scaphoid tubercle Fracture
- References
- Swadron and Mallon in Herbert (2018) EM:Rap 18(12): 3-4
- Associated Conditions: Fractures
- Distal Radius Fracture (Colles' Fracture)
- Seen in older adults (esp. Osteoporosis)
- Scaphoid Fracture
- Seen in young adults
- Snuff-box tenderness
- Distal Radius Greenstick Fracture
- Seen in toddlers
- Epiphyseal Fracture of distal radius
- Seen in teens
- Carpal BoneFracture at ulnar aspect wrist
- Hook of hamate Fracture
- Pisiform Fracture
- Associated Conditions: Ligamentous Injury
- Thumb Ulnar Collateral Ligament Rupture (Game Keeper's Thumb)
- Scapholunate Dislocation
- Associated Conditions: Infection Risks
- Dorsal Laceration over joint of hand
- Risk for intra-articular infection
- Nail bed bleeding suggests Tuft Fracture
- Consider Osteomyelitis