[Sport Injuries to Wrist and Fingers].

ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION: About one fifth of all sports accidents involve the hand. Many injuries can be diagnosed and treated easily. However, some of them such as fractures of the scaphoid or the hamate of the hamulus are difficult to detect with conventional radiographs and are often missed without a CT scan. Ligament injuries such as the skier's thumb must be recognized and treated properly, often surgically. There are also sport-specific injuries, such as the closed rupture of a flexor tendon pulley in climbers, which otherwise occur rarely and are little known. These topics, pitfalls and tricks will be discussed.