On March 12, 1994, then 13 year old Luis Figueroa was in the back seat of his older brother’s jeep when they were pulled over by police officers in the Bronx. Responding to a radio call of a department store robbery in progress, the cops suspected this car had the perpetrators since there were
Metacarpal
New Hand Injury Pain and Suffering Verdicts – $1,000,000 Recoveries Sustainable
By John Hochfelder on
Posted in Hand Injuries
The hand is composed of 27 bones:
- 8 small carpal bones that constitute the wrist
- 14 phalanges (the finger bones – 2 for thumb, 3 for the rest)
- 5 metacarpal bones (connecting the carpus to the fingers)
Here’s what the bones in the hand look like:
There are also numerous nerves, tendons, …