Closed rupture of the thumb flexor tendon pulleys is rare. Although anatomical and biomechanical studies have exposed the roles played by the pulleys in flexor pollicis longus (FPL) function, no standardized surgical management has yet been defined, in contrast to situations where pulley reconstruction is required in the fingers. We describe a case of rupture of the three pulleys in the thumb that probably occurred after violent thumb grasp during childbirth in the absence of any other trauma. We reconstructed the A1 pulley only using an extensor retinaculum graft because no remnants of the native pulleys were present.
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