Deep cutting injury from the edges of a snowboard
- 1Department of Orthopaedics, Azumi General Hospital, Azumi, Japan
- 2Department of Physical Therapy, Shinshu University School of Health Sciences, Matsumoto City, 390-8621 Japan
- Correspondence to: Dr Saitoh Department of Physical Therapy, Shinshu University School of Health Sciences, Asahi 3-1-1, Matsumoto City, 390-8621 Japan; ssaitohgipac.shinshu-u.ac.jp
- Accepted 5 November 2002
Abstract
A laceration deep enough to reach the bone occurs very rarely in skiing or snowboarding. Two such cases are presented here. In one case, the popliteal fossa of a skier was cut during a collision with a snowboarder. All structures posterior to the knee were severed and the leg became ischaemic. The other case was of a snowboarder who sustained a deep cut to the distal forearm during landing after a jump, resulting in a “spaghetti wrist”.
