A speedy and sassy varsity softball player is trying to leg a double into a triple. An uncomfortably close play at 3rd base occurs with the player diving head first into the base while the 3rd baseman lays down the tag. “Safe,” yells the coke bottle glassed umpire. She made it but stands up with severe pain on the radial/ thumb side of her wrist. You palpate a significant amount of pain distally to the styloid process of the radius. 1. Where might you want to palpate at this time (in anatomical terms)?

2. Let’s say you are smart enough to wrist anatomical snuff box for the last injury, and there is severe pain with that palpation. What injury are you now thinking about?

3. Let’s say there is no pain in that anatomical snuffbox but as you palpate the medial thumb, there is pain in the UCL of the MCP it of the thumb. What injury might you be thinking about? (Hint: Who comes to snuff the rooster?)