Did you take a bad fall from your skateboard or bicycle landing on your out-stretched hand? If swelling, pain and bruising of the hand don’t subside, and then you may have sustained a fracture of the scaphoid bone. Urgent evaluation and immobilization or surgery may be warranted to decrease any long-term problems.
Difficulty opening jars and twisting with pain in the thumb region may be an indicator of arthritis affecting the base of the thumb. Splinting, injections and surgical correction are potential modes of treatment.
Did you miss the mark on catching that baseball? Do you have a painful finger that has an inability to fully straighten? This could indicate a mallet finger injury, which may require splinting for a period of time.
Common sports and accident injuries of the wrist and hand include:
Baseball: mallet finger, finger fractures
Golf: carpal tunnel syndrome, scaphoid fracture
Pickleball & Tennis: ulnar impaction syndrome, scapholunate ligament rupture, carpal tunnel syndrome
Basketball: mallet finger, wrist fracture, scaphoid fracture
The benefit of care at Joint Pain Orthopedics is the specialization that our orthopedic providers have, which allows us to laser focus on a small subset of wrist and hand conditions that affect a great percentage of people with sports injuries and chronic conditions. This allows us to treat every condition with operative and non-operative measures giving you the ability to remain with one clinic for all of your musculoskeletal care! No gimmicks or surprises. Just good old fashion care from competent providers.