| Broken finger | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Finger fracture |
 | |
| Specialty | Emergency medicine |
| Symptoms | inflammation, tenderness, bruising, deformity, reduced ability to move the finger |
| Usual onset | Sudden |
| Causes | traumatic injury |
| Frequency | 0.012% of people per year in the United States.[1] |
A broken finger or finger fracture is a common type of bone fracture, affecting a finger.[1] Symptoms may include pain, swelling, tenderness, bruising, deformity and reduced ability to move the finger.[2] Although most finger fractures are easy to treat, failing to deal with a fracture appropriately may result in long-term pain and disability.[3]
The cause is usually traumatic injury.[2] These are most commonly falls, crushing injuries, and sports injuries. Pathological fractures, from an infection or a tumour, are rarer.[1]
- ^ a b c McDaniel, Dalton J.; Rehman, Uzma H. (November 2, 2021). "Phalanx Fractures of the Hand". StatPearls. StatPearls Publishing. PMID 32491557 – via PubMed.
- ^ a b "Finger Fractures - OrthoInfo - AAOS". www.orthoinfo.org.
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