Boxer's Fracture and Knuckle

Boxer’s Fracture is the term for a pinky-side hand fracture, most often at the neck of the pinky’s metacarpal bone. As the name indicates, the condition is generally a punching injury, occurring in such sports as boxing, kickboxing, karate, and mixed martial arts.

Treatments include simple immobilization with a splint and, in the case of severe deformity, surgical repair to restore correct hand mechanics. Other boxing injuries include fractures and dislocations/subluxations of the carpometacarpal joints. Extensor tendons and their supporting ligaments – the sagital hands – comprise the extensor aponeurosis and are often torn necessitating splinting and sometimes surgery.