You’ve heard of tennis elbow. Well, a friend of mine has gamekeeper’s thumb. When he told me his diagnosis, it ___1___. So I went through the Scientific American archives. And found this:

“Injury to the ulnar collateral ligament of the metacarpophalangeal joint ___2___ more agreeably as gamekeeper’s thumb. The name comes from the chronic ligament damage incurred by Scottish gamekeepers in the course of killing wounded rabbits.”

The article that comes from quotes a physician named Kevin Math, that’s right, Dr. Math, who explained, “The gamekeepers would grasp the hare’s neck between the base of the thumb and ___3___, and repetitively twist and hyperextend the neck. The activity would have to be repeated thousands of times before the ligament would ___4___ to that degree.” Talk about curling your hare.

The same thumb damage can result during a fall while skiing, from the torque of the pole strap. Doctors still refer to gamekeeper’s thumb more than skier’s thumb, even though schussers presumably outnumber bunny snuffers these days. My buddy’s was injured playing softball. So I’m happy to report that no animals were harmed in the making of his condition. For which we ___5___.
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网球肘大家都听说过吧。可我有个朋友得了猎物看守者拇指，他跟我说的时候我就觉得耳熟，于是我跑去翻《科学美国人》往期资料，发现了这个： “掌指尺骨副韧带损伤，通俗地说，就是猎物看守者拇指，这个名称来源于苏格兰猎物看守者在宰杀受伤野兔时得的慢性韧带损伤。” 这篇文章引用的是凯文麦斯医生之言，他的解释是：“看守者会用拇指和食指掐住野兔的脖子，然后不断扭动弯曲兔脖子。这样反复成千上万次，韧带受到的压力才会如此之大。”这里说的是扭兔脖子。 其实滑雪速降时受到皮带扭转力的作用，拇指也会受到同样的损伤。不过尽管现如今滑雪者远远多于宰兔者，医生们仍沿用猎物看守者拇指这一说法，而少用滑雪者拇指这一说法。我朋友是扔垒球的时候受的伤，因此我愉快地向大家宣布在此过程中无任何动物伤亡，为此，让我们竖起大拇指鼓励鼓励他吧。