Jan 10, 2013 at 4:03 PM â¢ Flag As Inappropriate. Make sure the officiant includes whatever wording is required by your state to make it legal. A pro would know what that is, but your friend probably does not.
Fracture-dislocation of the fifth metacarpal base is a common intra-articular injury and has been dubbed the reverse Bennett fracture. A direct blow to the ulnar border of the hand tends to cause an extra-articular fifth metacarpal base fracture.
Figure: Fracture of the base of the 5th metacarpal. Soft tissue swelling, denoted by the arrow, is perhaps a more obvious finding than the fracture itself. To the right, the base of the metacarpal is enlarged, with the fracture line annotated below.