Chris Boden, Sydney Australia & London, UK
On a week’s skiing trip in France a friend had a hard fall while snowboarding on the first day, hitting the ground hand-first. At the end of the day I found him back at the chalet with his hand in a bowl of snow. Fortunately he had been wearing a hard plastic wrist guard which probably saved the wrist from a fracture, but the impact had pushed his thumb so hard, we feared it could be broken. He was in extreme pain with very limited movement.This article originally appeared in Rei-ki Happenings 29