Ice Skating Trip Fall Leads to Surgery

If you look at Brenda's left hand, you will clearly see a white, jagged line running almost the whole length of her wrist. This is the scar, she says, that she got from a serious fall she suffered when her class took an ice-skating trip to commemorate the end of their middle school journey over ten years ago.

(Above: Brenda's scar, the result of an ice skating trip where she took a fall. The fall eventually led to surgery to repair her damaged thumb.)

For Brenda, this ice-skating event proved to be a little bit more than painful. Her first time skating brought the expected beginner's falls; but because one particular slip was so severe, she ended up having to wear a cast to fix what she later learned was a broken wrist.

However, sometime along her sophomore year of high school, she realized she had a "weird" thumb.

"It would just lay limp," she says, pulling up her hand to demonstrate. "I couldn't move it...it turns out I had broken a tendon"

Unless she physically moved her thumb around, she explained, she had lost all ability to move the top portion of her thumb like normal.

Eventually, Brenda had no choice but to undergo surgery to repair the broken tendon. But the scar on her wrist is a reminder of that tumble she took that day.

It appears that her injury is the situation explained in medscape.com