Knuckle-plated gloves with a boxer's fracture?
04-25-14, 12:22 PM
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Knuckle-plated gloves with a boxer's fracture?
To start off, I know this is an odd question. But anyways, to any mountain-bikers who have suffered the ever-so-aggravating injury of a boxer's fracture, have you had any problems wearing knuckle-plated mtb gloves? I ask because I don't own a pair of these gloves, but I want them and I recently received a surgery to realign a boxer's fracture. The knuckle is way better than it was before, but it's still slightly displaced (as one would expect) and I figured there was a possibility that knuckle-plated gloves won't properly fit me because of it.
04-25-14, 01:00 PM
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Are you fully healed up and OK to ride? I'd be more concerned about rebreaking that sucker with all the bouncing on Mtn bikes.
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04-25-14, 01:15 PM
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Not fully healed yet, but don't worry, I won't be getting on any bikes until I'm 100% sure my body is ready for such abuse. That's why I want the knuckle gloves, though. I want to try as best as I can to prevent another boxer's fracture 
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Boxer's fracture is metacarpal diaphysis. I'm all for gloves with knuckle protection, and I wear them myself, but my instinct says that since it's an injury from compressive force, rather than a chip off the met head, that knuckle protection won't do much to prevent another boxer's fracture.
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I understand completely what you're saying, and you very well may be right, but I just want to be safe. I got the original fracture by punching a metal door when I was mad at my ex-girlfriend (she turned out to NOT be worth the trouble... who would've thought, eh?), and then I got the surgery about half a year later to get the bone realigned. Something tells me that if I had knuckle protection to absorb some of the force when punching that door, I would've been much better off and could have prevented all that future stress. I also could have not punched the door in the first place, but that's neither here nor there. I have barbaric tendencies 
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I broke my hand several years ago. It was on the mtnbike and a boxer injury. I have a pair of Oakley pilot carbon knuckle gloves and some made by shift that I wear on the Ninja with no problems at all.
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Exactly the answer I was looking for, thank you kindly. I got a pair of cheap hard-knuckle gloves coming in the mail so I can see for myself, but this answer has improved my confidence. So again, thank you!
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