So, it turns out I fractured my finger a couple weeks ago playing football and I'll have to get treatment to go along with this splint I'm sporting. I got a referral from Student Health and a list of numbers to call, which I'll start doing. Doc said treatment would be like 4-6 weeks. Any experience with this type of injury? Its called "Mallet Finger":

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"In medicine, mallet finger, also extremely large softball finger, dropped finger and (more generally) extensor tendon injury, is an injury of the extensor digitorum tendon of the fingers at the distal interphalangeal joint (DIP).[1] It results from hyperflexion of the extensor digitorum tendon, and usually occurs when a ball (such as a softball, basketball, or volleyball), while being caught, hits an outstretched finger and jams it. Management options include putting the finger in a Mallet splint for 6 to 8 weeks or extension block k-wire for 4 weeks. This allows the tendon to reattach, if the finger is bent during these weeks the healing process must start all over again."

In my case, they said that the tendon may have torn and taken a piece of bone along with it, or otherwise fractured right along the joint.

9/11/2008 2:26:04 PM

Look Sheila, man up. You have a broken finger, not a compound fracture of the femur. Get over it.

Treatment. Pfffft.

9/11/2008 2:41:09 PM

Thanks tough guy. I will cherish your contribution to my thread, and possibly print it out, frame it, and put it above my computer so I can see it every day.

9/11/2008 2:44:09 PM

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"extremely large softball finger"

that is what you should refer to it from now on, it sounds way funnier.

9/11/2008 3:14:18 PM

pics please

9/11/2008 4:08:55 PM

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" In my case, they said that the tendon may have torn and taken a piece of bone along with it, or otherwise fractured right along the joint. "

I had the exact same injury while playing defense in flag football IM. Instead of just swatting the ball down last minute i tried to make a grab at the ball and fucked up my finger. Shit turned black and blue; figuring i just jammed it i never saw a doctor. 2 months later I grew worried that it was still sore and was crooked.

Went to the doctor and blantantly obvious on the XRAY you could see where the tendon tore and was healing; than there was a piece of bone "the crooked bump on my finger" that was dislodged. Had to have surgery to rebreak the tendon, set it, and pin down the bone. Had a metal rod extending out of my right ring finger for 3 months.

Still have a nice scar also.

9/11/2008 4:33:23 PM

that was 3 months worth of lulz !!!

[Edited on September 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM. Reason : pic]

9/11/2008 5:23:29 PM

ive had a mallet avulsion fracture


i was referred to the raleigh hand center beside duke raleigh hospital.

dr koker(sp)?

they have a "hand therapy" clinic

9/11/2008 6:01:51 PM