Our hands are important parts of our body as they act as tools with which we can control all our work as well as our environment. With the constant use of our hands we are bound to get variety of injuries like cuts, bumps, and bruises. Most of these injuries heal without any medical attention. But, there are a few injuries, if perceived as minor initially, can become severe afterwards if left untreated. One of these injuries can be named as Mallet Finger; it is a deformity of the finger in which the tendon that straightens it, is damaged.
The tendon of a finger is damaged when a ball or any other object hits it and forcibly bends it. The force of the blow tears the tendon and sometimes it may even pull away a bone along with the tendon making it difficult to straighten the finger. If you suffer from this deformity, initially you will suffer from pain and swollen distal IP joint and you won't be able to straighten your finger. If you experience such finger problems than you can treat this with various procedures. Doctors offer various treatments like exercise, splints and surgery for correcting mallet finger. Keeping your finger in rest will also help it to heal quickly.
If finger injures are not treated well, can sometimes lead to major injuries. Though our bones in the hand are small, we should not treat a broken or fractured finger as a minor injury. The bones in our finger let us perform specialized functions like holding, grasping, carrying things, throwing etc. If a finger fractures, it can make your whole hand out of alignment preventing it to do the day to day work. If you ignore the fracture, your finger may remain stiff and swollen causing pain. Some of the symptoms of the broken finger bone are swelling, tenderness, bruising, inability to move, pain etc.
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