My doctor told me I tore my flexor digitorum profundus of my ring finger. He said I will no longer be able to move my first knuckle on this finger but I would still have most of the important function of my hand and finger. He said surgery is possible but not vital for this type of injury. He actually discouraged me from getting surgery. I would just like to get a second opinion. Right now, it's been 4 months since my injury and my whole ring finger is still a bit swollen. I can bend the 2nd knuckle but not completely. The 1st knuckle is stiff and immovable.

I am learning how to play an acoustic guitar. I've been playing for 4 or so weeks now. The reason I am coming here to the site and posting is because I really would like to improve the backward bending of fingers, particularly my ring finger.

Are there any exercises, methods, or minerals/foods/pills to give this sort of backward bending ability to my finger?

I fell and fractured my wrist - a minimally displaced fx of distal radius. 3 wks after the injury, while in a cast, I noticed that I could not extend the distal joint of my thumb. I thought it was just stiffness due to the cast and the swelling. At my orthopod appt 2 wks later I mentioned it to my doctor. He knew it was an EPL tendon rupture and promptly repaired it by transposition of the IPL tendon. That was 4 mos ago. With physical therapy I have regained partial extension of the thumb. I can extend the distal joint only when my thumb is folded across my palm.

My mother recently had knee-replacement surgery on both knees. A short while after, she felt severe pains in both her shoulders shooting down her hands. Now she is left with numbness and weakness in her pinky and index fingers of the left hand and she isn't able to straighten her fingers. She is still recovering from the knee operation. The right knee feels normal. However, she feels a slight obsruction and heaviness in her left knee when she walks.

I caught my hand in a water-jet at work and it sliced through 2 tendons. I had surgery to repair the tendons on the 24th of July. I was wondering how much movement I will recover?

my little girl is 7 years old and has deforming pip/ joints and no one has been able to tell us what it is or how it got there. we are looking for help and answers. thank you little girls mom

I fell off my mountain bike & fractured my right wrist six weeks ago . I still have a hard time moving my fingers and my arm. I am in a splint for another 4 weeks. when ever I try to move my fingers side to side or apart I get extreme pain through my whole hand, wrist, and up my arm. Also when I try to close my fingers all the way I can't. It doesn't hurt I just can't do it. I have been working on moving my fingers and using my arm every day doesn't seem to be getting any easier or better. Is this normal or could there be something else wrong.

I fell in the shower seven weeks ago and hurt my hand and thumb. It still hurts alot and atill swollen and bruised. I fell on an outstretched hand. I got soap in my eyes and as I tried to turn around I slipped while I had both hands on the wall. My right one in back of me and my left on the side of me and as I fell, both hands went all the way down until I reached the tub surround. My left thumb bent inward underneath my left hand when I hit the tub surround. The pain immediately begun and it was awful.

i have a small scar on the top of my index finger knuckle,whenever i knock or bump this area i am in extremely uncomfortable pain.sometimes what appears to be the scar tissue also swells up like a large translucent lump ! it is extremely painfull to touch and also stops me from bending my finger as normal.
anybody able too shed any light on this condition ?
thanks
paul

About 6 months ago I was working as a cook, vigorously chopping. The next day I had a huge bruise on my wrist and the palm of my hand. There was even a bruise that seeped thru to my ring finger knuckle. Slowly over a period of 6-8 weeks, my pain was increasing and traveling up my arm. One Dr. thought I had ulnar nerve hammer syndrome. Through MRI testing it was found I have a bone cysts (lesion) on my 3d metacarpal 1.1mm- 1.5 m in size.