MacaronianMeatballs t1_j24shhx wrote on December 29, 2022 at 5:40 PM

It’s where you can experience pain if you have a a scaphoid fracture in your hand with a fall on an outstretched hand !

seattleque t1_j25n7hy wrote on December 29, 2022 at 8:58 PM

Yup! Found that out the hard way. It didn't hurt initially, but I woke up in the middle of the night feeling like my hand was on fire.

I thought the doctor was kidding when he said my entire arm had to be cast to prevent the break in a small little bone from shifting.

Fortunately it was my left hand - really hard to shift when you can't move your arm.

Usually casts immobilize the joint above and below a fracture. Did they cast your elbow, too?

Yup. All the way to just below my shoulder.

>fall on an outstretched hand

FOOSH is a medical term.

I figured the average person in the sub wouldn’t be familiar with the term

*FOOSH (Fall on an outstretched hand)

Parentheses are often helpful.

👍

Sometime I do bumps of coke from the 'anatomic snuff box'

the bump box

Just learned about this

Pinching it may help stop nosebleeds and headaches if I remember correctly.