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Causes

How do fractures of the hand commonly happen?

With such a wide variety of fractures in bones of the hand it is difficult to generalize about mechanisms of injury. Bones break when the force applied to them is greater that they were evolved to withstand. This occurs with impact injuries, contact sport, fights, falls, industrial and motor vehicle accidents and simply getting your finger caught in something. It is usually obvious when an accident occurs and it may be helpful to the treating team to describe the exactly what happened to cause the break.



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