An editorial comment on "the coach's finger".

Abstract

experience with certain injuries to the proximal interphalangeal joint of a finger, all in athletes, and they have called these injuries, admittedly with tongue in cheek, the &dquo;Coach’s Finger&dquo;. First of all, we should remember that athletes also sustain other injuries to this area, and the most common one is a dorsal dislocation of the proximal interphalangeal joint. Though less common, the middle phalanx can be dislocated volarly at the