What's up guys? I hope this podcast finds you all doing very well.

With the recent Connor McGregor and Floyd-May weather fight happening over the weekend,

I thought now would be an appropriate time to talk about Boxer's fractures.

So quickly, before we do, let's go over some anatomy of the hand.

The hand is made up of 27 boats. You have your phalanges, metacarpals, and carpal bones.

Your phalanges are comprised by 14 bones and are further broken down

into distal, middle, and proximal phalanges, except for the thumb which only has a distal and proximal

phalanges.

From there, you have your five metacarpals.

Both the metacarpals and the phalanges can be described by numbers one through five.

The first metacarpal refers to the thumb, the second index finger, third middle

finger, fourth ring finger, and fifth pinky finger. And then you have your eight

carpal bones. So now we know the basic anatomy of the hand,

but what is a boxers fracture?

A boxers fracture is a fracture of the fourth or fifth metacarpal neck.

I'll say that again.

A boxers fracture is a fracture through the fourth or fifth metacarpal

neck. They most commonly occur from direct trauma to a clenched fist. However, experienced boxers rarely sustain this type of injury. This is because

professional boxers do not typically punch in a roundhouse motion, whereas most of our amateur street fighters do.

So let's give a visual example.

If you clench your fist and then just throw a straight jab as most boxers do,

when you get to full elbow extension, you can see that all your knuckles line up.

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