Help with hand injury

[bikersk]

Hi everyone. Last year i hurt my hand in sparring. It was against a guy who had done only a few rounds sparring and smaller than me so i was asked to take it easy. I was mostly jabbing and defending. he was doing quite well and so i threw a couple of left right combos but not full force maybe 50 - 75%. At the middle to end of the second round i caught him with the right it wasn't a hard punch but it was well timed enough for him to want the session stopped. I hit him with the left half of the right hand, ring, middle and little fingers. had good wraps on and 16oz gloves. So after i noticed some pain and some small bruising at home so iced it for a while. The next day the area around the ring finger and little finger was quite bruised bit not too swollen. I didn't do much after that and trained bit didn't spar. Now i'm just being a fat lazy alco but there has continued to be pain in my little and ring fingers if i exert pressure on them. When i shake hands it hurts and if someone shakes it hard it will hurt for a day or so. I had an xray and no fractures showed. I'm wondering if anyone else has had anything similar?? I guess i'll go to the physiotherapist next. Any advice would be most appreciated.

Cheers

[Tilt A Whirl]

Its probably bone chips,sometimes it doesnt break it just shaves off chips,and that will remain for a long time

[bikersk]

Its probably bone chips,sometimes it doesnt break it just shaves off chips,and that will remain for a long time

Thanks for the reply. Its interesting you say that because a guy I work with is a hockey player at a pretty high level and when i told him he said "you have a floater" because when he had one in his ankle that's what it was like for him. Thanks man!!

[Tilt A Whirl]

Its probably bone chips,sometimes it doesnt break it just shaves off chips,and that will remain for a long time

Thanks for the reply. Its interesting you say that because a guy I work with is a hockey player at a pretty high level and when i told him he said "you have a floater" because when he had one in his ankle that's what it was like for him. Thanks man!!

Ive got them in my one elbow,so as soon as you said it,I had an immediate response of,"I can name this tune in one wince of pain"
Unfortunate but true,any athletic activity is going to leave some lingering injury,I can even bookmark mine by what I was doing at the time.
Nose goes to the left,that would be boxing
Left ankle swells,that would be medieval full contact fighting
The knee decides to join the ankle,that would be football
The elbow and right shoulder figures,well if the knee and the ankle are doing it........That would be pitching baseball
There arent many sports you arent going to get hurt in,and unless youve got a great surgeon, hurt for later.
Look at it this way,when you drop the hammer on somebody,you can remember that when you have as much grey hair as Im trying to dye away.
Beats the hell out of living in a closet and hoping the world doesnt end.
Its just chips from the sound of it,sometimes they disolve on their own,if they start pressing on a tendon,call a doctor,and expect to be on the shelf for awhile,otherwise you might do something permanent

[bikersk]

Thanks man. How do you get them diagnosed and treated if they don't show up in an xray.

[Tilt A Whirl]

Thanks man. How do you get them diagnosed and treated if they don't show up in an xray.

Usually they do show in the X-ray,if not a quick shot of cortisone will make it all better for awhile. Some times the things just disolve on their own. Hurts like buggery until that happens though.
UNLESS YOU HAVE ALLERGIES THOUGH,if you have resperatory allergies do not let them hit you with cortisone,because you will be in a pit of hell that will make your bone chips feel like candy land.
Question for the day,why does no known bone specialist on earth show you the X-ray if its good news?If a sentence starts with,"as you can see on this x-ray" I know Im not going to like the rest of the sentence.And why the need to point out every single bone chip,like I won a prize. Doc Im paying you enough,I'll take your word for it,I dont need a graphic description with slides of how the inside of my knee looks like someone took a cheese grater and a hammer to it.

[bikersk]

I've had cortizone before on the thumb though about 3 or 4 times so no allergy there. My friend at work had an xray and they didn't show. His girlfriend is a radiographer and they did a CT scan and it showed up in that so i'll push for the Dr to get a CT scan done for me. Thanks for your help.

[Tilt A Whirl]

I've had cortizone before on the thumb though about 3 or 4 times so no allergy there. My friend at work had an xray and they didn't show. His girlfriend is a radiographer and they did a CT scan and it showed up in that so i'll push for the Dr to get a CT scan done for me. Thanks for your help.

I see a scope in your future,but who knows maybe you get lucky and they go away on their own,as long as they arent pressing something important you can actually just get used to them. But with the amount of pain your in,Im betting theyre sitting on something important.Oh yeah,if they put you on one of the higher end anti-inflamatories,dont make any plans for a few days,when they did for my knee,I was stoned out of my gourd for 3 days
Glad to have been of help,hope it all turns out allright for you