Hand Injuries (cont.)
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Hand Injury Symptoms
The symptoms of hand injuries can vary depending on the type of injury, how the injury occurred (mechanism), depth, severity, and location.
Common symptoms
- Lacerations
- Tenderness (pain)
- Bleeding
- Numbness
- Decrease range of motion (difficulty moving)
- Weakness
- Pallor (pale or bloodless)
- Tenderness (pain)
- Fractures and dislocations
- Tenderness
- Deformity
- Swelling and discoloration
- Decrease range of motion
- Numbness
- Weakness
- Bleeding
- Tenderness
- Soft tissue injuries and amputations
- Tenderness
- Deformity
- Swelling and discoloration
- Bleeding
- Weakness
- Numbness
- Tenderness
- Infections
- Tenderness
- Local warmth
- Redness
- Swelling
- Fever (rare in hand infections)
- Deformity
- Decrease range of motion
- Tenderness
- Burns
- Tenderness or complete numbness
- Deformity
- Discoloration
- Loss of tissue
- Change in texture of skin
- Redness
- Blistering
- Tenderness or complete numbness
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