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Fractured pinky finger
My son is 15 and suffered a fracture of the joint of his right pinky in the palm of his hand. The fracture is in the small area that sits to the inside of the bottom knuckle on his pinky. We took him to an orthopedic doctor who xrayed his hand and confirmed the fracture and then put him in a hard cast from his elbow to his wrist with a wrap the rest of the way. This was on for 10 days. He returned today and with my husbands request the doctor did not put the hard cast on but taped the pinky to the ring finger and then put a soft cast from the tip of his fingers to his elbow. My son fractured his hand playing baseball, went on to play in three more games with the fingers wrapped before we were able to get the first appointment. He states that there is no pain but there is bruising and a smal amount of swelling in the area between the two fingers.
Finally, my question....As a parent I am struggling with the DR and the 15 year old. He is unable to swim, unable to play video games, unable to play baseball and miserable. He has broken both pinkies in sports before and this type of extensive treatment has never been done. AM I WRONG...in going against medical advice and allowing him to use his hand WITHIN REASON? What is the chance that just keeping them taped will have the same end result as the cast that now has his other fingers and wrist stiff? The doctor consulted a hand specialist and told my husband that taping the fingers and a splint would be fine and a cast would not be needed. Is the splint protecting the joint or is keeping the entire are immobile helping to heal it? It is the summer, he is miserable....we are miserable and it is just a pinky......HELP!
Finally, my question....As a parent I am struggling with the DR and the 15 year old. He is unable to swim, unable to play video games, unable to play baseball and miserable. He has broken both pinkies in sports before and this type of extensive treatment has never been done. AM I WRONG...in going against medical advice and allowing him to use his hand WITHIN REASON? What is the chance that just keeping them taped will have the same end result as the cast that now has his other fingers and wrist stiff? The doctor consulted a hand specialist and told my husband that taping the fingers and a splint would be fine and a cast would not be needed. Is the splint protecting the joint or is keeping the entire are immobile helping to heal it? It is the summer, he is miserable....we are miserable and it is just a pinky......HELP!
Hi, im a 13 year old boy and i have injured my right thumb i am going in to the doctor, to check if its fractured, against my will. I have been practicing with this baseball team since the start of January and our first game is coming up on Wednesday. If it is fractured will i be out long? because it is in the lower part of my thumb probably on the joint, im assuming i will be out awhile if it is broken. It swelled the first day two times as big as it normaly is. it was purple from the top of my knuckle to mid-way into my palm. I am severly concenered about not playing sports because my parents have paid over $1,000 for me to play for this team. I have also put in my time all winter to play this summer. I am a big input to my team also so i would really like to play and not let the team suffer. So my question is how long would it take for me to be able to play sports if it is fractured?
Quick cure for broken pinkey:
6 pack, 2 vicoden and cortison shots and then some shots of petron. Either that or be a man and have it cut off like Ronnie Lot.
Tell your kids that Doctor is a doctor for a reason. And that your kids can perscribe thier own treatmeant when they go through 12 years of school and training or they move out. Also remind them that life ***** and then you die and at least they arent the ones paying taxes and the doctor bills. Then put them to work mowing lawns so they can pay for their own bills. If they say it hurts their poor little hands, then remind them that pain is weakness leaving the body, and if they weren't so weak they wouldn't have got hurt in the first place.
If you are seriously typing homework for your little wuss, then they are probably going to end up on unemployment as an adult. If some one with a real disability can make it through life and support themselves, then your little wuss should be able to type a few pages. They do have another hand, until some one catches them stealing, which is what they will have to do to survive, since you raised them to be a wuss. I bet you don't spank your kid, because "it's a form of abuse." well somebody should kick you in the groin and give them a lifetime of spankings, so they don't turn out like you, a wuss, the track that they are currently on.
Web based medical advice is about as usefull as some of you people. it gives you enough information that you know something is wrong, but following advice for treatment of something serious, is a good way to cause youself future problems, just like following the idiots advice that post on this page.
All I can think of is all you idiots cloggin up the government clinics when socialized medicine takes over. I dread the day when I pay for a smokes emphazima and lung cancer treatments or a drunk's new liver. But get denied bypass surgery because I am too old, eventhough I did my part and exercised and avoided bad foods and bad chemicals. Then I'll have to wait behind some idiot who's kid hurt their poor little hand to get the news that the governent is going to let me die.
people are plain stupid, and that is why this site exists!
6 pack, 2 vicoden and cortison shots and then some shots of petron. Either that or be a man and have it cut off like Ronnie Lot.
Tell your kids that Doctor is a doctor for a reason. And that your kids can perscribe thier own treatmeant when they go through 12 years of school and training or they move out. Also remind them that life ***** and then you die and at least they arent the ones paying taxes and the doctor bills. Then put them to work mowing lawns so they can pay for their own bills. If they say it hurts their poor little hands, then remind them that pain is weakness leaving the body, and if they weren't so weak they wouldn't have got hurt in the first place.
If you are seriously typing homework for your little wuss, then they are probably going to end up on unemployment as an adult. If some one with a real disability can make it through life and support themselves, then your little wuss should be able to type a few pages. They do have another hand, until some one catches them stealing, which is what they will have to do to survive, since you raised them to be a wuss. I bet you don't spank your kid, because "it's a form of abuse." well somebody should kick you in the groin and give them a lifetime of spankings, so they don't turn out like you, a wuss, the track that they are currently on.
Web based medical advice is about as usefull as some of you people. it gives you enough information that you know something is wrong, but following advice for treatment of something serious, is a good way to cause youself future problems, just like following the idiots advice that post on this page.
All I can think of is all you idiots cloggin up the government clinics when socialized medicine takes over. I dread the day when I pay for a smokes emphazima and lung cancer treatments or a drunk's new liver. But get denied bypass surgery because I am too old, eventhough I did my part and exercised and avoided bad foods and bad chemicals. Then I'll have to wait behind some idiot who's kid hurt their poor little hand to get the news that the governent is going to let me die.
people are plain stupid, and that is why this site exists!
hi i am typing right now with a broken/fractured pinky i am not completely sure what entirely is wrong with it but i have to wear a splint and it has been killin me so my mom is taking me to the doctor it hurts mostly in the middle knuckle section and was hurt by a basketball rebound in p.e right off the goal if u have any info abot what should probably be done plz help
I am 13 and 1/2. I just went in today for x-rays on my left hand pinky and they think i fractured it. I was tumbling when this incident happened. I just have a splint on it right now with tape wrapping it around my palm so it can't move. I am just taking ibuprofen to ease the pain. I am still going to play sports, actually i am going to be active very soon. Dirt bike riding tomorow, 2 soccer games on saturday and tumbling again next monday and wednesday.
I hope it gets better. Haha
Best wishes to everyone else...
I hope it gets better. Haha
Best wishes to everyone else...
My Son who is a 15 year old competitive figure skater broke his left pinky right below the 2nd joint when he fell and slid into the boards. To his horror the ER doctor at Children's hospital put him in a half cast all the way from below his elbow and "buddy casted" the ring finger to the pinky. Although it is his left hand everything is hard to do and it especially affects his training because of the fear of falling again. I thought it would be a little splint or something so I am quite shocked at this "cast thing..." At present we call him the "lobster man" as his hand looks like a lobster claw!?
hey Im lilian my friends calll me lill im 13 in the eighth grade and i may have fractured my pinky but Im not sure. i was playing with my friends in the cafeteria at my school and one friend kicked me in my hand and now the bottom of my pinky where the knuckle bone thing is swollen. i can bend it but the finger can get straight unless i move it and it hurts when i move it up and down. but it gets tense and tight when i make a fist.ok you know how you have lines in fingers, well after the third line my finger gets reallly really thick like thicker than my other pink. I dont wanna go to the hospital and i really dont know what to do. its the hand i write with and we have a bunch of standardized test coming up. plz help if do bad on theses test i cant get into the high school i want to go to.
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