I broke and fractured my right thumb in two separate places playing rugby recently, and went to the hospital as soon as I could. The doctor put a temporary cast on, then after two days when I went back, he put a bigger one on. Just a few days ago, he put an even bigger one which covers my whole thumb, palm, and forearm, up to my elbow. This has made me extremely immobile and I can't do the most trivial tasks like rolling my sleeves or straightening my collar. It is also very inconvenient because I had to take three exams with my cast on, and had to write with my left hand. Most of all, my thumb is constantly hurting because I wasn't given any painkillers to alleviate the pain.

I broke the metacarpal bone of my right baby finger by hitting a door. The break was close to the metacarpal/proximal phalanx bone. It has been several months since the break, actually just over 12 months, and I cannot bend my baby finger to make a fist. It doesn't seem to want to bend at that knuckle joint. The bone was not set properly and is off-set slightly from a vertical perspective, if that makes sense. A second surgeon suggested that ligaments may have become stuck to the bone and that is preventing the full movement. I am due to have surgery again in a few days to cut the ligaments free.

I injured my middle finger catching long pole. I felt pain immediately, but still had mobility in joint. Swelling was gradual over a couple hours, but then wouldn't go down even with ice and Tylenol. Naprosyn finally reduced swelling. Lingering pain and swelling led to getting x-ray three days after injury. Got results two and a half days later and they said non-displaced avulsion fracture of middle phalanx. Treatment so far has been light "day splint", Naprosyn, and ice.

I broke my finger while wrestling my coach at practice in the beginning of the season, but my team really needed me and I didn't want to be a wuss so I didn't get it checked out. It turns out that that's a very bad thing, because as I kept wrestling I kept re-breaking it. I finally got it x-rayed and it was in fact broken. The doctor said it was 80% healed already though, so it wouldn't be a problem now that wrestling was over.

I had my right hand under the collar of my 190-lb great dane. We were at the park and she wanted to take off towards another dog. I had to hold her back. She jumped up and down forcefully. As she darted forward, my hand got caught under her collar she pulled me along, as I couldn't get my hand free. I fell face forward and had the wind knocked out of me as I hit my chest on the ground. My hand and fingers were throbbing with pain. They started swelling immediately. I waited to go to the doctor till the next morning. Put ice packs on my hand initially. My ring finger on the right hand was not just broken, but shattered badly. Plus I had a jammed knuckle on it too.

I slammed my right index finger in the car door, hitting right below the first knuckle. The first X-ray revealed no fracture and it was just buddy strapped, but after a week with no improvement and a bony lump developing, I was told a second X-ray was needed. It turns out crush fractures (cracks and chips in the bone) often can't be seen in X-ray until later on. This is the most frustrating injury I've ever had - never realized how many things fingers are used for!

Yesterday I was playing basketball in gym. We were playing 'dribble tag'. Anyway someone went to tag me and I went to tag them at the same time and I tripped and jammed my left middle finger on the basketball. I was in pain and went to the nurse the next period. I came home and my finger was swelled and bruised. My dad kept saying I jammed it. I went to the doctor today and got x-rays and they said I had a very tiny fracture. I have been soaking it in ice water and taking Motrin but the swelling still won't go down!

My middle finger is broken. I was told that I would need rods and pins! I was in a bus accident where a sudden stop made all of us fall back and unfortunately my hands landed in the wrong place.

I broke my little finger while playing rugby and I put ice on the injury as soon as I could. My knuckle is still swollen after two weeks, though.

I had broken my right hand index finger in a bike accident some 1 and half month back. It had broken from the middle joint. After the X-ray, doctors told me that extensor tendon was broken and surgery would have to be performed. A doctor performed surgery and put stitches to hold it and then put a splint on it. He advised me to keep finger straight at all time so that stitches won't break.