![]() ![]() The CMC joint at the wrist is what stops the cuff. And, if you can't fit it over your hand, will dislocating your thumb help? First, which joint are we even talking about?Īccording to Andrew Winch, a physical therapist specializing in sports medicine, it's not the joint we commonly think of that causes the issue. That is the type of escape we are going to consider: pulling the cuff over the entire hand. And, in every case, the thumb joint required a bit of pulling to pass. The women all folded their hand together vertically. ![]() The obligatory amount of space police officers must leave can facilitate that. More likely they escape because officers are required to leave a bit of room between the handcuffs and the wrist, enough to be able to slip a finger between the two.įrom the videos I've viewed, all featuring women, the cuff is pulled over the hand. If it was because they were dislocating their thumbs, they couldn't say for sure. However, they did say that women escape cuffs more often. I said I didn't believe so and asked a few police officers after the fact. One writer asked if we thought it was possible to dislocate your thumb to escape handcuffs. They field questions from the audience which, in this case, happened to be writers. Can you break your thumbs to get out of handcuffs the first CMC is a saddle joint, so the only real way to traumatically dislocate it is to break one of. Not long ago, at a writer's conference, I was on a panel called "Blood and Guts." Panels are a group of folks who happen to know a little extra about a subject. ![]()
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