Imagine you’re skiing down a mountain — or even along a cross-country trail. Suddenly, your skis hit a patch of ice, and you begin to fall. You stretch out your hand to catch yourself, but you’re still holding your ski pole. The ski pole, held between your thumb and your palm, wrenches your thumb and damages one of the ligaments that connects some of the bones in your thumb. It’s the most common scenario for a very common thumb injury called, appropriately, skier’s thumb.
