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Chauffeur fractures (also known as Hutchinson fractures or backfire fractures) are intra-articular fractures of the radial styloid process. These injuries are sustained either from direct trauma typically a blow to the back of the wrist or from forced dorsiflexion and abduction.
The former accounts for its name; trying to start an old-fashioned car with a hand crank sometimes resulted in the crank rapidly spinning backward (backfire) out of the driver's grasp and striking the back of the wrist.
As well, a FOOSH injury is short for Falling On the Out Stretch Hand.
The former accounts for its name; trying to start an old-fashioned car with a hand crank sometimes resulted in the crank rapidly spinning backward (backfire) out of the driver's grasp and striking the back of the wrist.
As well, a FOOSH injury is short for Falling On the Out Stretch Hand.
Ria
Rebecca I thought it an aptly named injury since you were chauffeuring your mother to Victoria! Ria
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