Depends on what you hit. There are parts of the human skull (such as the orbits, especially the zygoma) that are really quite fragile. Punch someone there, and the risk to your hand is minimal.
Yep it isn’t fun but it wasn’t life changing either.
I hit a guy in the mouth when I was 17 and broke a piece of tooth off in my knuckle. I became very ill within a few hours. I told the ED Dr. That I hit the curb skateboarding. After he removed the tooth fragment he said “hmm I did not know curbs had teeth”.
Did you get that broken by a twisting grip? Just curious.
It looks like the same bone, same hand as me. Left 4th metacarpal?
In kung if you never do anything to get hurt first lesson you learnIN kung fu you never use your fists for head. First lesson to learn
I got mine stuck in a guys shirt pocket, when I threw him he twisted and I couldn’t let go. Like snapping a pencil.
I initially though it was my finger, until I tried to reduce the fracture. The finger was fine except it was jutting out sideways under my pinkie finger
I broke mine blocking. I was sparring 3 students. I focused too much on the one I was kicking, and screwed up the timing blocking a front kick. Instead of my hand hitting the side of their calf and pushing the kick aside, I got my fist right in front of their shin. When I pulled my gloves off, it was tenting. So I reduced it and finished the class. Nobody knew I was hurt until we were driving home, and my wife asked why I was palming the wheel instead of gripping it. Wrapped it, iced it, and went to work that evening. X-rayed it after we got past the worst of the nights rush. The distal 3rd was off and the proximal 2/3 was split lengthwise. The reduction wasn't bad at all, so Sue splinted it and we went on with our lives.
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Wow! That’s worse. Hard to put your pants on with one hand. I thought I might hurl when I reduced mine, but I got through it with some ibuprofen and tequila.
I know it was silly, but I wasn't about to let my students know I'd gotten hurt. They already knew I was crazy though. After my first bowel resection (14" of gut and 6 tumors removed) I was in class the day I was discharged. I didn't do much other than walk around tweaking things with people, but I was there.
Well, you have several strikes against you. Your generation, your gender, the fact that you are a nurse, and the fact that you are a nurse, and mostly because you are a nurse. This likely makes you non compliant, symptom hiding, reticent to accept any help whatsoever, hypercritical of the methods used in your care, and generally intransigent when presented with the facts I have listed here. This makes you one of the worst types of patient possible. Am I right?
