Just recovering from a Fracture in my index finger. What do i do to get the full range of movement ?
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I shattered my finger joint so badly they sent me to a specialist.  He took off the splint right away (1 day after the break) and said that while it was healing I had to move it as much as I wanted to be able to move it after it was done healing, otherwise I would have very restricted movement.  Even though it hurt a lot I bent it all the way back and forth every minute of every day until it was done healing.  I have a joint with normal movement.  Just keep remembering that you want full use of it.  You should have done it from the beginning, but good luck.
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First of all I am not an M.D., however I have had the go from Surgeons  who just needed for me to dive in and find the problem through deep tissue work. \nI can give you some suggestions on what can be causing the problem. Obviously you have blood flow to your feet, and since they are still attached to your body, it is not Phantom pain.\n\nThink about the restriction of blood-flow to the area, from the pressure of your upper body, on all of your nerves that are being compressed while you are spending many hours sitting.\n\nI hope you have all of your needs met.\n If not, you need to be your own detective. Are you sitting on a Gel Cushion? Do you move your legs off of the foot pads, and change their position often. Do you move from Wheel-chair to your bed several times a day, and have your legs elevated?  Re-positioning is really important. I have done deep tissue on old, very old injuries where the circumference of one leg was smaller that the other. The nerves grow, I kept working on the smaller leg each day, and with the growth of new tissue and nerve, working out in our gym, the leg reached it's max growth. However the old injuries were usually football (muscle tears) on the old boys, before P.T. was in use. The components of the blood crystallize, extra calcium binds to the site. It is like glass fragments. eek.\n\nIf your insurance wont pay for "Massage", you must find a way to get your feet and legs massaged. Be careful that you have someone trained, or they can damage the fragile state of your tissue at this time. I wish I were a hundred me, so I could be the one to help you heal.\nIf you could apply Cold Packs to your feet, it would take away some of the pressure of fluid against the nerves, that are causing the crushing, tingling sensation. (Hobbling), James Caan was feeling in Misery. Since you don't have the feeling in them, you must be careful with the cold pack. Start with 10 Min. max. Not directly on the skin, wrap in a small towel. You can also Ice other areas, the back of the knee is a lymph area, gently massage in an upward motion.. Stretch youself as much as you can.\nI know you mention upper chest, which Vertabrae I am wondering. Can you reach your suffering feet to rotate your ankles?\n\nSeems like if you have SSD, or Health plan, you could have a Physical Therapist work on your legs, especially your Sciatic nerves that you are sitting on all day. I have seen some killer Gel Cushions. Expensive, however. It's good you ask your quesions here. I hope this helps you some. I love the Actress in the movie, she was good, can't think of her name.\n\nI will probably remember her name as soon as I sign off. he he\n\nP.S. If you can find your way to water therapy, especially a salt water pool, or some type of Hydro-Therapy, that would be the ticket.  Take care, give em hell....Marilyn \n And, as I always say, back off the salt. Chem. Panel lately?\n\nWhen I flipped a motorcycle in 76, In the Middle East. I landed on my face. My cheek turned green really fast. The best pain killer was Opium at the time. Maybe a little tooo good.
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Agility drills are great for speed and balance.  Basic exercise such as jumping rope, shuffling around in your stance to work on foot work, various box jumps, etc.  Your looking for movements that involve changing direction a lot.  One drill I've done is to mark five dots in a pattern on the floor, just like you would see on a pair of dice.   Space  them out to be about a foot and a half away from each other.  Then practice jumping from dot to dot using any pattern you can think of in your head.  Practice with one foot at a time and with both feet together.\n\nContrary to what a lot of old school martial artists believe lifting weights is actually great for speed.  The stronger you are the less effort you require to move your body weight, allowing you to be more explosive.  Don't worry about losing flexibility.  That's also a myth.  If you lift weights with a full range of motion you'll preserve and possibly even increase your flexibility.
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You need to talk to your surgeon or attending physician. There are some activities that they will recommend that you do not participate in for a specific amount of time due to the possibility of re-injury. You're still in the recovery phase and while you shouldn't "sit home and feel sorry for yourself" patience really is a virtue. You're still healing.\n\nGood luck and glad to hear that you're doing well!
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Healing continues on even after the incision is healed.  If you are going to a qualified Physical Therapist he/she will be your best resource.  Make sure the PT you are seeing has experience in treating your kind of injury.  One of the first steps they should take is improving the mobility of the tendon, improving your flexibility and normalizing your walking pattern.  The most likely reason you continue to limp is the shortening of the muscle/tendon does not allow for normal walking mechanics.  This will improve over time.  Just remember you had surgery and was in a cast and walking boot for quite a long time.  Patience and perserverance as well as team work with your Physical Therapist will pay off!!!
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Well, sounds like you finger is hurt, Eh. Up in the Great White North me and the boys tape em' up and play some puck. But Just rest it and get a splint to keep it from moving and gets hit or knocked again est something. So yea, Eh, it will get better in a week or two but if its broken you probably be in more pain. If you are see the doc about it.
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I had severely bruised both my knees in an auto accident.  It really messed up the sensation.  Like you, the structures were "fine", but since it injured the nerves, it took nearly a year to improve...actually, and at about 5 years it was about 75%.  Now, 15 years out, my knees feel good, but they're still not quite right and certain sensations a little strange.\n\nI would imagine that a little brief, gentle massage along with heat/cold/heat/cold alternating (2 mins@) every day would help to stimulate the nerves to regenerate more effectively.  \n\nIn the meantime, do whatever level of exercise that you can; this will speed healing.  Be patient, and remind your knees that it's safe to come out to play again!\n\nLove & Light!
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Ice, regular anti-inflammatory tablets (ibuprofen), and rest.......try and work out what movement has strained them and try to avoid it. If it doesn't get better within a month, see your doctor for referral to physiotherapy.
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I am assuming you have already had it set and in a cast.  Then the best thing you can do is follow your doctors orders.  You need to rest it and keep it elevated.  Take a good multi vitamin to help w/ healing.  You are looking at about 6 weeks of recovery time here.  Remember, rest and elevation and follow doctors orders.  You cant go wrong there.
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Nerve damage! if your nerves got severed and were reattached, you need to keep doing the Physical therapy you did at the sessions. It has to be a constant thing.If it is painful, remember that whilst the nerves are still healing , it will hurt. If this was a recent accident please DO NOT rest your hand for extensive periods of time thinking that your hand will heal and be better, it is the complete opposite and your hand will become immobile for sure from not moving.Compare it to an ungreased bycicle chain, you hear it creaking,squeaking because it wasn't greased and it doesn't want to go anywhere.That is why you want to keep your fingers and hand moving as much as you can. Get a remote and do finger pressing excersising, from the top button all the way down. Do this every half hour while you are awake. Are you wearing a hand brace? Something that keeps your hand tight, it's an elastic thing.Try not to wear it too much.\nOpen and close your fist as much as you can, same as the finger excersices. If you have no open wounds on your hands, try using a few drops of pepermint oil with a base of avocado oil (Bath and body works) and rub it on your hands, it should really help with your numbness as the pepermint oil gets your nerves reacting, and it penetrates.\nIf you can't move the fingers willingly, move each finger up and down and flex them with the help of your other hand and fingers. Don't let the hand get lazy.Keep it moving.Nerves will regenerate and they will pick up where they left off if you keep them busy and functioning. Keep the idea of the ungreased bycicle chain in your head and move your hand and use it so it doesn't stop working.Don't become unmotivated or lazy. Do things as normal. Even if your hand is in pain, do things, it's because your nerves are trying to repair themselves that they hurt and it feels like shooting pain.So the more you move, the better it will be. I cannot say that enough.
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Do whatever you have to do to stretch the muscles in your back--upper and lower. Stretch the muscles in your left arm (if you play right-handed) too (very important). If your hands (fingers) ache, then stay hydrated and take Advil before and/or after your round or practice routine. Individually wrap the base of your first three fingers of your dominant hand (and index finger of the other hand) in some sort of foam tape before heavy practice. Plus, use a glove.\n\nThere were times when my hands would ache terribly the morning following my usual iron practice. It wasn't from the bleeding, it was the joints of my middle fingers that would hurt so bad. Fluids and Advil was found to take the pain away so I could practice again.
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There are a lot of bones in the wrist, if you've moved or fractured a small bone, there c/b changes inside.  It's weird that your pinkie and thumb hurt and the fingers between you haven't mentioned. Pinkie could also be from your lateral epicondyle (elbow) and thumb..De Quervains Tenosynovitis. Ask the doc (or better yet, ask a physiotherapist) to assess you for those conditions too.  How's the other hand? Is this your dominant hand?
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I'd recommend that you ask your physical therapist for advice. I haven't had surgery, but ripped the tendons in both knees before fencing and had to go to phys therapy for months. I'm sure there are certain yoga patterns that you can do, but not others. My guess is that you need to build strength, but carefully. My therapist gave me workout sheets to take home. While you're on limited exercise, you might want to reduce your calorie intake so that you don't gain weight.
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It sounds like you have a strain, with some minor inflamation, which is putting pressure on the nerve.\n\nAcupuncture is especially effective in this type of situation. If you don't want to seek outside care, you\ncould try acupressure and massage, at home.  \n\nOf course, if there is still swelling you should ice your hand.  Whether there's swelling or not, soaking your hand in warm water and epsom salts will help.  Especially in conjunction with massage afterward. Massage up the tendon line from the affected finger tip.  And, do make sure to include the wrist and forearm if you feel that the stress-line runs up into your arm.  Good luck!\n\nGood luck!
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Right steve,you need to go bck to A/E to get this injured finger checked out and x-rayed.Some fractures are worst then others,some need manipulating bck in to place and other fractures need just taping together.In the mean time get some elaster plaster and a piece of gause (dressing) fold the dressing in half and place the dressing in between the injured finger and the nxt finger,get the plaster and cut two pieces long enough to go round both fingers,tape two fingers together one nr the nail area and the other just above the knuckles,this will help until you go bck to the A/E dept,but you should get this seen to just incase its a serious fracture,oh and dont get the plaster and dressing wet.Good Luck
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It depends on the severity of the injury.  Have you been to a doctor who specialises in muscular problems?  There is also the possibility that you have damaged the ligaments in your hand and this is affecting the mobility of your hand.  The ligaments help to control the directions in which the bones are capable of moving, a change in the movement pattern of the bones in your hand could indicate that you have damaged the ligaments.  \nI would definately reccomend not doing pushups.  Being capable of doing pushups does not mean that you should be doing them if you feel pain.  This could be causing your body to heal a lot slower than it otherwise would.  Also if you have hurt it bad enough it could be an injury you carry for life.\n\nBut above all, go see a muscle specialist.  If the bone doctors are all saying the same thing but there is not an improvement in your condition then it is probably a good idea to seek a different kind of doctors opinion.
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You may not have broken any bone in the finger, it seems more likely from what you said that the middle joint in the finger is out of place (this explains the lack of mobility and the occassional swelling). Either see a doctor of medicine or a doctor of chiropractic (either one can x-ray if necessary, I recommend the chiropracter as he is most knowledgeable about bone structure). Waiting so long will make the readjustment more painful (you should have asked sooner, sorry)