Ulnar deviation
Hello Doctor,

I have a Ulnar deviation of fifth finger without evidence of underlying fracture, i was informed of this by rediologist when he took four x-rays from my fifth fingure.

I cant stretch my finger all the way, the finger has an arch. I sustained the injury playing basketball and it happend about two month ago.

I used a splint for a day and I forced the finger to be stretched all the way in which I stretched it but I had a lot of pain since I put to much pressure on the finger so that it would remain stretched all the way in the splint.

The next day I took my finger out of the splint and after a 20 to 30 minutes of not using the splint the finger went back on looking the same way with the arch in the pip.

I did not use the splint anymore after that, just used it for about 12 hours one time.

Doctor what should I do? should I keep on wearing the splint for a much longer time and make the finger go under lots of pressure to make it stretched?

Please advise, thanks!

Posted By David on September 03, 2008 at 03:13:58:

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