Dislocated fingers
(4 discussions)
I keep dislocating my fingers from football. I dislocated my right pinkie finger, my left ring finger and dislocated my left middle finger twice. I don’t know what to do. I want to make my fingers stronger when they heal. Are there any ways for me to make the joints stronger and are there any ways to prevent this for next year? I am going to tape them, but I would like to hear someone’s opinion. Right now, I have my middle finger and ring finger wrapped with a brace, and my pinkie is not wrapped or braced. I have started to work them(ring and middle finger) a little, but I can’t bend the top of the joint at all, where I dislocated them. I can bend my pinkie just fine, but it is still swollen.
4 comments
Terry Robinson PT
Sounds like you have a technique problem of catching the ball. The football should be caught with the whole hand, fingers apart but not too far. Be sure and watch the ball completly into your hands, just like a baseball player watches the ball into the glove. Taping will help but may make it harder to catch. Practice some easy balls and really watch the ball into the meat of your hands and this should help. Maybe we could use you someday on the Dallas Cowboys.
Jesus Falcon
I was playing basketball one day after I had recovered from a pinky fracture and some internal bleeding around the middle finger when I got a rebound but found an extreme rush of pain. I looked at my hand and my middle finger was the center of the swelling. It seems as if my ring finger has been put out of place too, but my big worry is the middle finger because I cannot make a perfect fist do to the pain that comes. I also play football because the pain isnt there unless it has a bending in the wrong way. A perfect fist or something near it is impossible do to the pain and pressure preventing me. What can I do or should do? thank you
cam miller
I have a dislocated and broken right ring finger.. They have had it in a ace wrap and spint for 10 days and it is not getting any better. My x-ray is negative but that it is hard to believe.
candise
my boyfriend has dislocated his right ring finger. He does not have insurance. It has been over a week, what can we in the mean time when we can afford X-rays?