I smashed my finger 1 week ago in between garage door panels.
Smashed my finger in garage door.
Covering a finger injury is not a bad idea especially if you re still working but keep it loose.
January 22 2014 at 10 30 am.
A smashed finger is a common injury that occurs when a heavy object or an object with enough force behind it impacts the finger.
The blue discoloration is due to blood collection in the damaged tissue of your finger.
The hematoma may take time to.
A smashed finger is a common injury that typically occurs accidentally.
If your finger is jammed or smashed and as a result no longer straightens out at the tip this is known as mallet finger or mallet fracture.
Wrapping injured fingers and toes can lead to more damage when vital oxygen and nutrients can t get to the tips.
But most parents aren t quite sure exactly what medical attention if any is needed when fingers are smashed.
Common causes include dropping an object on the finger hitting it.
It may take another 5 to 10 days for your finger to become normal.
We already struggle to get blood flowing to the tips of our fingers and toes on a good day.
The door shut completely and i had to push it back up so they were in there for a few seconds.
My middle and ring finger were hurt the worst nails are now solid purple the knuckles on both fingers are twice the size big.
This indicates that the tendon responsible for extending the finger is stretched out or torn.
I waited for three days but it is still blue.
My finger is smashed in my aunt s car door.
Most parents are familiar with the ear piercing scream of a child who has closed a finger in a door smashed it under a brick banged it with a hammer or slammed it beneath a skateboard.
I smashed my right hand finger tips in a garage door.
There are many kinds of fingertip injuries from crushed fingertips hit with a hammer smashed in the car door and other things that are just too painful to think about to cuts all the way to various levels of amputation.
Don t wrap a smashed finger.
I have wrapped it in a warm towel soaked it in warm salt water and ripped off bottom of the fingernail to relieve pressure any thing else i could do or wait it out.
This page will only discuss crush injuries not fingertip amputations.
Any trauma or injury to your finger can lead to.
Dents or ripples up to the nail bed on ring finger.
Whether you hit it with a hammer or close a door on your finger it can be quite painful because there is a concentration of nerve receptors in the fingertips that allow for our sense of touch.
