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Authors and Editors
Author: John P. Cunha, DO
Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD
Previous contributing authors and editors:
Author: Michael Donahue, DO, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Osteopathic Surgical Specialties, Michigan State University.
Coauthor(s): Michael Fugle, DO,
Chair and Program Director, Department of Orthopedics, Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital.
Editors: Brian F
Chinnock, MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Texas Tech
University Health Sciences Center at El Paso; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD,
Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Jerry Balentine, DO, Professor of Emergency Medicine, New York College of Osteopathic Medicine; Medical Director, Saint Barnabas Hospital.
Last Editorial Review: 10/19/2007
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The layman's term "jammed finger" often refers to injuries that are incurred around the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint of the fingers

