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Hand injuries on artificial ski slope
J P Van Geertruyden1, D P Goldschmidt
1Department of Plastic Surgery, Hôpital Erasme, Brussels, Belgium.
Journal of Hand Surgery (Edinburgh, Scotland)
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
50 consecutive patients with injuries due to skiing on an artificial ski slope were seen in our emergency department over a 16-month period; 76% of these involved the hand or wrist. 52.5% of hand lesions were fractures and only one-third of the first ray injuries were sprains of the ulnar aspect of the MP joint. These data significantly differ from those known for skiing on snow.