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Bump on healed jammed finger?

So about two months ago, I jammed my finger by playing basketball. I don't know how bad the jam was as I could not get an MRI, only an X-ray. My finger was jammed on the last carpal (the smaller one) and I could not straighten it as it would keep bending downwards. Now, I think the jam is healed but I have a big bump on the joint. Additionally, the finger won't straighten 100% and the lowest part of the finger bends downwards when I try to straighten. This weird bend combined with the bump gives my finger an odd shape. However, there is no pain and I have full flexion. There is only a very little pain when I put a lot of pressure on the bump but I honestly can't tell if that's even abnormal. It takes a lot of force and it's really not much pain at all. I went to the doctor and he said that my finger would stay like this for the rest of my life and that I missed my chance to fix it. Is this true or do you think the finger could still be healing?
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hi, the same thing happened to me when i was like 4 years old. i closed a washing machine on my finger and broke it but because i have such a high tolerance for pain i never went to a doctor and now it is bent and has a bump in it. i'm not a doctor but i'm pretty sure it's because when you break a bone it heals itself be creating more tissue and a cast is really to guide it into proper shape. because you had no cast the tissue was formed in an improper shape. my doctor said that i can get a surgery to fix it but i can't get it now.
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It could be true, while i cant tell you anything for sure concerning your finger. I can tell you that a residual bump can take years to disapear.
When the bone heals, at the site of the break, it created some new fibers, wich in time harden, and become new bone.
But it always created these fibers AROUND the break, making, as you could say, a *ball* of bone around the break.
With time, this *ball* of bone, will gradually disolve any unecessairy parts, to finish closely to what the original bone looked llike.

However there is a chance it may stay that way for your life.

i hope this helps!
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I'm not sure my that I broke the bone though. There was not too much pain. Just minor swelling and pain. But my finger didn't even turn purple. I just treated it with a splint and ice and eventually stopped wearing the splint. Maybe this is why? But either way, I don't think this bump is bone. It hurts when I press it and it is a ball. I don't know for sure but I would think bone would be way harder. Any second thoughts or extra information about bumps and the bend on my lower finger?
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