Why are My Fingers Curled After a Broken Wrist?
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- Опубліковано 30 лис 2024
- Michelle, Hand expert for Virtual Hand Care, explains why your fingers my curl or bend after a broken wrist. I get asked this question all the time so I wanted to share with you some of the reasons why your fingers may become curled into a bent position after a broken wrist or wrist fracture.
You may be experiencing a hard time straightening your fingers all the way after your wrist injury and this can be due to many factors such as lack of movement, flexed finger posture, swollen fingers, and much more!
Luckily, learning why your fingers are curled can help you get them moving and free from stiffness. Check out this video to learn more!
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This video is for educational and demonstration purposes only and is not to be used as a replacement for seeking medical advice or treatment of your condition. Virtual Hand Care, or its members, do not offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult with your doctor or healthcare provider before starting any exercise program. Please know that performing any exercise or program is solely at your own risk.
WHY would a surgeon NOT tell you this in detail?...they just say 'you gotta move your fingers,,,but I was in severe pain after surgery CRPS..and it was 3 weeks before they got me into a PT...and STILL after 10 months I'm stiff...BUT in 1 session of YOUR excercizes and you saying 'apply heat first' I am seeing breakthrough!...thank you for this blessing...wishing you continued success in all your God-given dreams.
RSD or CRPS syndrome.
Try alternate water therapy. Dip in hot water for five minutes and against for another five minutes in ice cold water and back to hot water.
I tried and it was painful for nearly three or four months, till Pastor and wife together prayed and it disappeared, by Grace of God.
Surgeons do mistakes to hand wounded patients by putting hard and tight plaster of paris bandage for 3 weeks. Sorry.
Hi, they think I have CRPS in my wrist and hand after my break. I just got my cast off, I was wondering how you got it to calm down and what your symptoms were. Thanks.
I'm 8 months post ORIF for a distal radius fracture (comminuted). Fingers still aren't as straight as my other hand, but slowly getting better and the hand is fully functional. Thanks for your info.
I'm two weeks out of surgery for a distal radius fracture and can't get an appointment for occupational therapy until the end of the month. Went looking on YT for exercises I can do until then and found your channel. Thank you.
You are welcome! Sorry to hear about your fracture. Keep in mind, you could always see a see a virtual hand therapist way sooner if needed.
But she didn’t say what to do to get them better not that helpful 😂
same
I'm 4 months post-surgery on a broken wrist (radius) and doing well, except for these bent fingers that are still curled when I wake up.... They're getting better as I stretch them out, but it seems to be taking longer than I expected. Thank you for your videos - you are an excellent therapist!
Happened to me also, had surgery in March,
Thank you so much Michelle, your videos are so informative and have helped me immensely to recover from distal radius fracture. You are a brilliant communicator and have kindness and humanity. x
How nice of you! You are welcome! Happy to help 🙏
This Video Really helped me. my mother opened her cast a while ago though we were so worried about the swollen fingers and other stuff. thank you very much
Wow. I wish I saw this video about five or six weeks ago. I am 6.5 weeks out from a distal fracture surgery. I am the poster child for the curved finger problem. I wiggled and bent my fingers during the last four weeks, but nobody told me about the importance of trying to straighten them. I was just released to ditch the splint, and I was given exercises. It is very difficult to do the motions requiring the straight fingers. Now I know why! Thank you!!!
Ugh! Hurts to hear that. But I'm glad you are getting started. Keep moving it does get better!
@@VirtualHandCare Thank you!!!
This was helpful for not just wrist injury, but finger as well. I have a curled index finger after healing from a severe laceration, and the explanation here also makes sense for this. Thank you!
You have a great way of communicating. So glad I found your channel.
I have seen all your videos and some multiple times. You are the best physiotherapist there is online. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to make them. ❤️
Thank you so much for this information. I was starting to panic when the swelling started. Doctor never mentioned it or the bruising from it
No problem straightening my fingers....problem is bending them to make a fist. Doing OT only been to 2 appointments thus far...still have swelling and stiffness....never dealt with anything so annoying. I know it will take time to get back to normal....my OT said to stretch fingers down at the joints every 2 hours. Can not wait to be back to normal....😣
How are you now?
HELLO IN 2020 I BROKE MY LEFT WRIST, I DID ALL YOUR EXERCISES AND NOW ITS PERFECT! THANK U!!! I JUST BROKE MY RIGHT ONE. IVE HAD A HARD TIME. TODAY THE DR TOOK MY CAST OFF AND TOLD ME THAT THE X RAY LOOKED THE SAME? AND PUT BRACE AND TOLD ME I NEED TO GET MOTION ON MY FINGERS...CLOSED FRACTURE OF DISTAL END AND OF RADIUS? WHICH ONE OF YOUR VIDEOS CAN I USE (WITH BRACE?}? THANK YOU!!!!!
WRITIN W MY LEFT ITS HARD!
Thank you for this. I am recovering from a wrist fracture and have been wondering why I feel pain all the way down to my elbow when I exercise my fingers. Thank you for this clear explanation.
You are welcome! Your whole arm and even your whole body can feel sore and tight.
@@VirtualHandCare This is true. I have noticed that when I do a full body stretch, my right arm feels a bit weird...
And the hand exercises on your channel are really helping with increased flexibility. Thank you for those.
Great information more than my doctor
Very helpful. Thank you Doctor
Had distal radius joint broken wo dislocation 3 weeks ago. After week started with easy fingers moving. After 2 and half weeks (soft calus should be formed) removed cast few houra per day and started with fingers excersizing. Now i can hold a beer, steering wheel or press soft rubber ball. Dr says that have to keep cast for 5 weeks but I decited to progress with step by step fisio therapy paralelly with bone healing. I'm aware that wrong move of accident pressure to this soft structure could be highly risky but I really take care to avoid this.
My hope and plan is that wrist become 70+% functional within 2 months. ***Every serious text what I found told that we never should test our bone strenght during healing process and this should strictly be avoided!***
Remodeling will take the rest of hard bone healing within next few months to year.
Don't recommend this to others if you're not deeply aware of risks!!!
Hope that have right😅
Thank you for this explanation!!
Fabulous info! Thank you 😊
Thank you for the explanation. I broke my distal radius 2 days ago and casted. Dr said to wiggle my fingers. Will definitely work on straightening my fingers so when the cast is removed i get my ROM back
I broke my wrist 1 month ago it's still broken but I always wondered why it happens thx for helping me know!
How tf is it still broken go back to the doctors broo
@@osi682z4 Doctors said i have to wait 1 month and 2 weeks so basically I have to wait 6 weeks and they will see my arm ( X-ray)
@@d3nixrs278 at this point right now
@@osi682z4 bones don’t heal that quick.
Haha for real @@osi682z4
Thank you so much Michelle, your videos are so informative.
I am trying to move my fingers and straighten them every day. Still in cast. Will take it on June 9.
Thank you. I'm going through all this with a broken 3rd Metacarpal base break. Nearly at week six. I removed the splint a couple of days ago. (Sucks when you're a guitar player) The lack of wrist movement is also a concern.
Can you give me an update how long your injury lasted?
I have the same injury. Only a week in😭
I still have my splint on💀💀
I broke radius 7 months ago I still have tight stiffness in fingers will it go away
Hi Doctor, so useful ur information about wrist fracture, I had a fall and landed on my wrist, so I had fracture of radius and wrist bone, after surgery 8 months over, still my fingers and not come to normal and I cannot use my fingers, doctor seeing ur videos I am getting some information and trying to do excercises, doctors are not explaining what is the correct excercises. Thank you so much 🙏🙏🙏
Doctor not 8 months it is 2 month
thank you so much for this video and this exercise are very very helpful for me God bless you ❤
I'm waiting for this video for awhile, thank you very much.
Thank you I just got a cast on today
Thank you for this clear explanation
Thank you for posting a helpful videos. My forearm is very smaller than the other one. I feel too frustrated about that. It was being my childhood days. Please make a video for this problem mam.
Thank you. Great explanation.
Hi Doctor, thank you for sharing all this information. I only want to know how can I do to help with the swallow, and how long this is going to happen. If you please could help me 🙏🏻
Hi, I have a question concerning finger range of motion restoration after a distal radius fracture. When will the person be able to reach most of their range of motion back? For example, can see say that MCP ROM will increase by 20 degrees, PIP will increase by 10 and then DIP will increase by 5 within two weeks while making short term goals for our patients after such an injury? Thank you.
Will my fingers ever fully extend or are they stuck like this for life after distal radius surgery?
Are they still stuff please respond thank you 🙏🏽
Yes please respond 🙏🏽
@tanishaharris1040 no they are not stiff anymore thank God
What did you do to improve your curled fingers? Thanks. And how many months it improves or back in normal position?
Your videos are very good but I'd like to see one that deals with the after effects of being immobilised in a full above elbow plaster cast. My hand was in a claw position and the cast covered more of my hand than the one in the video so I couldn't move my fingers much anyway.
I have same issue. After 3 weeks in half cast and started the exercises she recommended
Very helpful!
Like and subbed with my good hand 😆. Thank you for your knowledge and sharing it with others. I feel better now.
Well it took them 3 weeks till I can get a proper one and they going to say I’ll have a surgery or not and if I do why they let the surgery 3 weeks after
Thank you so much for this video. I broke my wrist yesterday and I’ve been moving my fingers but can’t bear to move my thumb. Should I be powering through it?
I just broke mine today and this helps
I broken my arm but I have two screw in my wrist can you please tell me do y'all put the person's to sleep or no am only 13 and I have a doc appointment this Monday please help
I broke my arm below the wrist (ulna and radius) 4 weeks ago. In a cast now and it comes off in 2 weeks (no surgery - Yah!). but, i have A LOT of pain in my hand. The best way to describe it is a charley horse type pain. It's horrible. I move my fingers and spread them apart (this doesn't cause pain). A various times of the day (even if I haven't moved them) it hurts very badly (not sore). Is this the normal healing process? Thank you in advance.
But it hurts😩
I’m a month out from scaphoid surgery, bone graft compression screw necrotic bone. My stitches are still a bit tight and not completely healed. I feel a bit of a stretch when I open my hand should I wait a little bit longer, or continue opening the hand and fighting the stretch from the stitches?
On 22 June 2021, I broke my right wrist 1 month ago. On 8 of July made Open reduction internal fixation surgery in HSS Hospital NY. I'm still in terrible pain. should I do those exercises? Thank you.
I had a wrist fracture radius and ulna one intraarticular 3 extra articular ten months ago but my finger joints are still stiff and swollen is this normal? How long does this last? I went three times a week for physio for 4 months but then just bought a hydrocollator and squish and flatten my own fingers now....
Hi. I got a new cast at 4 weeks in, bc my thumb was pinched and numb. My new cast is now too tight, too long and too close to all my fingers, knuckles. I’m swollen again, pinched, w slight overlapping. The styloid process is throbbing too. Its the weekend, drs office is closed. How can I help myself quickly relieve finger pain? I saw that cast shears might be able to cut off a little and allow some space. How? Would you make a UA-cam video?
my friend at school broke their wrist and has a cast and their fingers are curled
i need to do this ASAP ❤
Spiral Mid shaft humerus fracture. Wk 12 still got a brace. Wk7 hand frozen. Finally getting physio. Omg the pain in wrist excruciating. Can't make fist or bend top knuckle or full rotation of wrist. I asked for wrist x-ray no. Will it ever fully heal with rom
Is there any cure for trigger finger or any exercises that can treat trigger finger?
I wish I'd discovered your videos a few weeks ago! Thank you - they are very helpful. I'm sure you get a million questions but if you have a second, would love your expert opinion: I had a distal radius fracture 6.5 weeks ago, surgery with plate/pins 3+ weeks ago. I have a recurring spot of pain on the top of my hand, right in the middle. Worse when I do the exercises. Just want to know - is that normal? THANK YOU!
Hhhmm on the top of your hand not wrist? That is not an a very common area unless there was an injury there or maybe the cast was rubbing. Very hard to say without seeing. Definitely mention that to your doctor or therapist!
@@VirtualHandCare thank you for replying! will def mention to doc
I shattered my distal & ulna I had a spanning plate put in place for more than 4 months & my fingers aren't curled I was able to make a fist days after my first surgery. once I had the spanning plate removed I'm still in therapy to regain mobility but I've had absolutely no curling of my fingers...
what is the remedy to fix this issue?
I can straighten my fingers but still can't curl them. And do have that pain that shoots up to my elbow. Am i doing something wrong?
Hello, ma'am ..i had mildly displaced colles fracture yesterday.. My travel is scheduled to maldives after 7 weeks..is it advisable to travel with restricted wrist movement?
I can't do anything with my left wrist anymore because my distal ulna has been removed...i had distal radius fracture with druj disruption
I am able to supplinate. Turn palm upwards but not pronate- turn towards ground fully. Any exercise videos for same?
Most of your exercises were great. I learnt them the hard way, seven months have passed since they tried four reset of fracture and botched up k wire surgery injuring my thumb tendons and putting me in plaster for 6 weeks and no exercise for another two weeks since radial and ulla fracture hadn't healed.
Only able to ride scooter and car but not cycle or clap.
Why are fingers curled after a broken finger joint ?
dont i know it
Very helpful - thank you! Triple fracture of the distal radius here at week 7.
It's weird how i find that my fingers curl unconsciously, so I've been stretching several times each day. I'm now in a splint, which allows more movement for my lower arm, wrist, and hand. Also, much of my work requires typing on a computer keyboard, and its getting better.
My little and ring fingers tremble uncontrollably when I attempt to do some of the finger exercises you suggest.
Is that normal? Will it get better? What would help that?
Thank you again. I'm so glad I found your channel! 🖐🏻
Feels like my fractured thumb bone and the radial bone is starting to connect as I'm watching this video. The only tingling im feeling is the bones they say I fractured that's in the cast. Is that normal?
I wonder how long does it take for a broken tendon or wrist to fully heal like not a severe one but with a cracked ?
How much can I extend my
Thumb with a distal radius fracture?
I just fractured my distal radius in my right hand last Wednesday. Hurts awfully.
Same for me a month ago how is your healing going
I’m all healed up. Surgery was quick and painless and I finished physical therapy.
I have a bent wrist in plaster as they had to reduce my distal radius fracture. I am getting really painful cramp in my fingers and wondered if there is anything I can do as it’s really getting me down 😢
Why do i fell and see empty space between my thumb and wrist after my cast is off
What does it mean when your wrist pops alot
I broke my distal and ulnar or both sides of my wrist 6 weeks ago and just out of my splint after surgery too.. I can't supinate my hand with my wrist--real stiff. Any suggestions on how to best go about starting out?
Same
Same problem
get a rubber band play with your fingers
same
why I can't move my fingers after my forearm surgery
Because you have many tendons/muscles that move the fingers in your forearms.
My 3fingers are curved swollen and paining my hand was in a caast for 3weeks
I am trying to bend my fingers after I. broke my wrist but I can't do it please help me
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