Conditions and injuries of the finger, hand, wrist, forearm and elbow: what they are, how they behave, and when they stop being minor.
Night tingling in the thumb, index and middle fingers that shakes out is early carpal tunnel, and a night splint genuinely helps. Constant numbness and a flattening thumb mound mean the nerve is dying. Here’s the honest timeline between those two points.
A drooping fingertip after a ball strike is a torn tendon, however little it hurts. The fix is a splint worn dead straight for 6 to 8 weeks, and one bend restarts the clock. The cheapest good outcome in hand therapy, bought entirely with discipline.
Trigger finger is a tendon catching on a thickened pulley at the base of your finger. Caught at the click stage, a splint usually settles it in 6 weeks. At the locking stage, the options narrow. Here’s the honest timeline.