How to restore a finger after a fracture

The most vulnerable place for fractures are protruding parts of the body. If we consider the hand, then most often you can find fractures of the fingers. In order for them to work and perform their functions, healing alone is not enough. Rehabilitation is needed after a broken finger, during which muscle development will be carried out. This is a difficult and painful period that needs to be passed.

Rehabilitation after a broken finger

Immediately after the injury, a plaster fixing bandage is applied to the arm. In this way, the bones are in a single position and do not move, the fusion proceeds correctly. However, there is a downside to the immobile position of the hand. During this period, the muscles lose elasticity, become motionless. Rehabilitation for fractures of the upper extremities begins immediately after the removal of the fixing bandage.

How will activities help develop fingers after a fracture? Only the correct and competent approach will restore mobility and beauty to the limbs. Physiotherapy exercises are carried out gradually, as sensitivity appears. If the hand is given a full load abruptly, then you can get the opposite result and return to the cast.

Through regular training, they try to avoid the following symptoms:

• Poor mobility of the hand and arm in general;
• Pain when moving the hand;
• The formation of calluses on the bone, which interferes with the normal use of the limb;
• The onset of the disease is post-traumatic polyarthritis.

Preparatory activities

For everyone who has experienced an injury to the upper limbs, the question arises of how to develop fingers after a fracture. It must be understood that the recovery period can begin only after the complete fusion of the bones. After removing the fixing bandage, there should be no pain in the hand. Only in this case, it is possible to start procedures aimed at developing phalanxes. The duration of rehabilitation for a fracture of the fingers is 30 days. The number of days may be reduced or extended, depending on the patient's condition and progress in recovery.

To develop each finger after a fracture, you need to conduct classes daily. There should be three sets of 15 minutes. Before doing the exercises, you need to collect warm water in a container, carry out all movements under water. This is necessary to reduce the load on the muscles and reduce pain.

Classes should begin with a warm-up, which will prepare the body for the main loads:

• The damaged surface is warmed up by rubbing hands against each other;
• With a brush, make several movements in a circle;
• Try to straighten each finger. The smoother it is, the better;
• Squeeze straightened fingers, try to push them apart, making a gap between each. Do this alternately: first between the second and third, then between the third and fourth, and finally between the fourth and fifth;
• Tap lightly on a flat surface with your fingertips.

After the muscles get stronger, the exercises will be easier, you can remove the basin of water. Performing without water procedures contributes to the gradual strengthening of muscle mass and preparation for serious stress.

Development Exercises

Not only exercise therapy is used for the recovery period. Also during this period, additional procedures are used, which together contribute to the speedy recovery of a person:

• massage activities;
• Physiotherapy procedures.

To develop each finger after a fracture, you need to do gymnastics, consisting of simple but effective exercises, each performed 10 times:

• Rub your hands so that they feel warm;
• Then connect your fingers tightly. They should be as straight as possible. Rotate the brush 10 times in one direction, 10 times in the other. This exercise allows you to develop the radius and the junction of the phalanges;
• Put your hands on the table, palms rest against the table. You need to try to raise the brush up and down, while the palm should not come off the table;
• Hands remain palms down on the table, you need to make rotational movements with the brush, again without lifting it from the surface.

Doctors, recommending how to restore a finger after a fracture, talk about doing exercises that contribute to the development of fine motor skills of the tips. The following manipulations help a lot:

• Sorting grains of small cereals;
• Scatter matches on the table and try to collect them;
• Use a computer keyboard;
• If the patient knows how to play, then lessons on the piano, guitar and other musical instruments, where all fingers are involved;
• Collection of children's designer. You can also use small Lego pieces or mosaics;
• Embroider, make applications, do quilling;
• Don't forget the expander. It helps to develop the brush as a whole.

These exercises can be used to restore a hand with any fracture.

However, there are several types of gymnastics and a set of exercises suitable for a particular finger and its fracture.

It is worth noting that with a fracture of even one phalanx, after removing the plaster fixing bandage, the whole arm will have to be developed. Each proposed exercise should be performed slowly, without haste. Do not make sudden movements so as not to provoke a second fracture. Daily exercises will help the speedy restoration of mobility and beauty of the hands.

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