A 19-year-old college student presents to an urgent care center with pain at the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joint of the middle finger of his right hand. He reports that the pain started suddenly the previous evening when the finger was jammed while he was playing basketball. The pain is worse through the range of motion, but there is no numbness and no pain at the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint.
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New Study: Youth Sports Injuries Always in Season
Visits to the emergency room for sports injuries in children between the ages of 5 and 18 years rose every year from 2001 to 2013, with three quarters of those injuries attributed to football, soccer, baseball, and basketball, according to new data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. All told, there were nearly half a million emergent injuries in 100 hospital emergency departments during the study period—translating to an …
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