Finger sprains is the kind of injury that often occurs in sports, especially in the sport of volleyball, basketball, football, and rugby. Although you can speed up recovery with home treatment methods, a jammed finger can often resolves itself without medication.. In some cases, you must use a medical treatment that sprained finger can function normally again and can move freely as usual.
Rest your fingers.
Jammed finger often caused due to improper handling of the ball in sports such as basketball, volleyball and baseball. When this activity is causing your finger injury, maybe you should stop doing the sports. Rest for a few days up to several …show more content…
Attach the ice on a jammed finger.
Pain that occurs in the jammed finger usually caused by inflammation, so we encourage you to apply cold therapy as soon as possible as this could slow down circulation in the area are plastered, so ice will reduce swelling, and make nerve numbness.
You can use any frozen objects, such as ice cubes, boxes, or bags of gel vegetables (preferably a bag of peas) which is in the freezer. Whatever you choose to do a cold therapy, paste the object every hour for 10 to 15 minutes until the pain and inflammation is reduced. After a few days, perhaps you could stop using this ice therapy.
When attaching the ice on a jammed finger, elevate Your arm/hand position using some pillows to help reduce the effects of gravity and help reduce inflammation.
Don't forget to wrap the cold objects with a cloth before you paste it on your finger so that you are not experiencing ice burn (skin damage due to exposure to very cold objects) or frostbitten (freezing of most organs of the body due to exposure to excessive cold temperature).
Taking anti-inflammatory drugs for a short