Title: GIVE TIME AND PROPER CARE TO HELP JAMMED FINGER HEAL - Deseret News
Headings: GIVE TIME AND PROPER CARE TO HELP JAMMED FINGER HEAL
GIVE TIME AND PROPER CARE TO HELP JAMMED FINGER HEAL
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By Deseret News Jun 14, 1992, 12:00am MDT
Alton Thygerson
You jab your finger into a wall, catch a ball wrong, fall on the finger, inadvertently run into someone - jammed fingers result from many causes. However you do it, the results are the same: a painful, swollen, stiff finger. It is probably a sprain, a stretching or partial tearing of the ligaments and capsule surrounding the joint. Finger joints are small, and they seem to stay swollen forever after they've been injured. Jammed fingers stay swollen for months, even if they are not very serious, and there is not a lot you can do about it. A swollen finger won't bend as far as a normal one, so people develop the habit of making it bend by pulling at it with the other hand. That irritates it more and makes it swell further. Months later they may wonder why the swelling has not gone down.