3. Direct Impact Injury
There are many ways in which direct impact injuries can occur, but it can be split into the categories of either the affected body part hitting into something, or something else hitting into the body part first. Direct impact injuries that happen with a flat or slightly angled hand are likely to cause a scaphoid fracture due to the way in which the pressure gets transferred.
These types of direct impact injuries can take many forms, including the most usual way of needing to stop a fall and doing it out of instinct – with the hands. They can also happen during, for example, an assault where someone is hit with an open strike – or during a swimming match, when someone hits the side of the swimming pool with the hand.
A lot of direct impact injuries are almost like a fall – and transfer the same impacts – but in different ways.