Mallet Finger

legacy · Aug 17, 2012

So I jacked my finger up at work (right hand, middle finger). I have what is called "Mallet Finger"...

http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00018

The doc told me I can't bend my finger for 8 weeks! Yeah right! Fortunately it's not my trigger finger! Anyone else had this? Did you have surgery? How did you fare?

justr_86 · Aug 17, 2012

Sounds like you're whining..... Lol jk dude. I almost cut my trigger finger off before my bookcliffs deer hunt.... That sucked....

legacy · Aug 17, 2012

HAHA! Yeah, not nearly as bad as cutting it off! (How'd that effect your hunt?) In fact, it doesn't even really hurt - I just can't move / straighten it! The splint gets in the way of everything and is pretty annoying though!

feddoc · Aug 17, 2012

>So I jacked my finger up
>at work (right hand, middle
>finger). I have what is
>called "Mallet Finger"...
>
>http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00018
>
>The doc told me I can't
>bend my finger for 8
>weeks! Yeah right! Fortunately it's
>not my trigger finger! Anyone
>else had this? Did you
>have surgery? How did you
>fare?

It takes a fair amount of time to diagnose mallet finger. When did the injury happen?

completesportsman · Aug 17, 2012

Never heard of it, when I first read the subject line I thought you had smashed it with a framing hammer!

ShowThemToMe · Aug 17, 2012

A few years back I shattered my Thumb!

With a Big Mallet,lol!!!

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About 3 months later It was getting to where I could tollerate it!

Then I was drivin a Nail with a 20 oz Eastwing with waffle stomper face!

Somehow my Sore Thumb got right atop the nail head & Wow did I smack it & SOB did I ever see Stars!

F'n thing would of felt better if somebody would'of cut it off!

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NVBighorn · Aug 17, 2012

I assume that's different than "Mullet finger"?

justr_86 · Aug 17, 2012

We were getting ready to leave for the hunt... I used my middle finger, turned out ok. My dad had to gut my deer cause I couldn't....

feddoc · Aug 17, 2012

BTW, it is also caused when an injured finger is not properly treated. As an example, if you break the first joint of a finger...or sometimes have a bad sprain...and it isn't treated properly, the tendon will never be able to straighten out.

Ya gots to wear the splint.

legacy · Aug 17, 2012

>>So I jacked my finger up
>>at work (right hand, middle
>>finger). I have what is
>>called "Mallet Finger"...
>>
>>http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00018
>>
>>The doc told me I can't
>>bend my finger for 8
>>weeks! Yeah right! Fortunately it's
>>not my trigger finger! Anyone
>>else had this? Did you
>>have surgery? How did you
>>fare?
>
>It takes a fair amount of
>time to diagnose mallet finger.
> When did the injury
>happen?

It's been about 2 weeks now. I had it X-ray'd and then went and seen an Orthopedic Hand Specialist. I've had it in a splint since my first doctor visit on the day it happend.

knthartter · Aug 20, 2012

I had the same thing a couple years ago. I was play ice hockey and got cross checked from behind Knocking me to the ground. I had my stick in my hands sandwiching my fingers between the stick and the ice. The fat a@@ that hit me fell on my stick and just about popped the finger right off. Took my glove off and the finger was 180 degrees the direction at the last knuckle. Didnt hurt much but look like hell. Almost perfect now, just a little bent.