Winter injuries even side line athletes, like Joe Sakic
December 24, 2008 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Winter injuries mean slips on the ice, car accidents, and wrenching your back while shoveling, right? Don’t forget adding getting your fingers or hands sliced with snowblowers. It has happened and it continues to happen to people who don’t pay attention. It even happened tohockey’s Colorado Avalanche center and captain, Joe Sakic.
The 39-year-old hockey player made a classic mistake. Having turned off the machine, he reached into the auger to clear snow but something happened and Sakic ended up with severe tendon damage and a break occurred to one finger and fractures to two others. While he is anticipated to have a full recovery, many others who make the same mistake aren’t so lucky.
According to a study recently published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery, there were 22 people who underwent surgery for snowblower injuries to the hand between 2002 and 2005.
You can read more about this issue in the Globe and Mail article, Hands off: Getting stuck in this snow job will hurt.
~~~
Tags: joe sakic, photo joe sakic, colorado avalanche captain joe sakic, snowblower injury, snow blower injury, pain blog
