| Re: bad knuckle pain please help!!
Sometimes small fractures are not easily seen on initial x-rays. Only after a couple of weeks, when your body starts to lay down new bone are they evident. This far after a fracture, it would probably have healed anyway. In terms of tendon injury, a full tear of a tendon would result in loss of active range of motion- in other words you can passively move the joints in your fingers but not move them using the muscles in your arm. Otherwise, you may have stressed or torn ligaments around your knuckles. Again, this far out of the injury, there is not much to be done unless you are unstable at your mcp joints (knuckles). Another possiblility is that due to pain after the injury, you didn't move through normal ranges, and have developed some joint stiffness (which can be painful). Follow up with a hand specialist when you can to get properly diagnosed. Ice and elevate for swelling.
Last edited by charlodius; 04-08-2005 at 12:29 PM.
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