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Figure 5: Trauma related to fingers stuck in a bowling ball during release is likely a result from vertical forces with a combining bending moment, giving nature to fracture lines as depicted in (A). Postulated mechanism of injury in our patient cohort shown in (B). When picking the ball from the rack, the finger gets crushed between two balls. The horizontally moving forces lead to the horizontal fracture line encountered in our patients.