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Strange injury - numb thumb

  • 12-08-2010 1:26am
    #1
    BiffoGooner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭


    This might sound a bit strange but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced anything like this.I was at the range two days ago hitting balls and I managed to either shank or top a ball, I can't remember which, but it was as if I'd been electrocuted, the feckin' pain of it.Presume it was a vibration up the shaft.I got pins and needles up my arm and in my hand and my right thumb went numb.Anyway, the pins and needles went away but 2 days later my thumb is still completely dead.Beginning to wonder if it's gonna go back to normal at all :confused:
    Anyone had any other strange golf related injuries like that?


Comments

  • #2
    conno16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,335 ✭✭✭conno16


    are you ok now?


  • #3
    C.O.Y.B.I.B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭C.O.Y.B.I.B


    2 years ago I was teeing off and caught the ball awkwardly and got a similar sensation to yours , actually caused me to drop the club . It was my left ring finger , so I had to take off my wedding ring cos it swelled up. I finished the round badly as you can imagine and after 3 days went to GP who said it was just soft tissue damage but he couldnt explain how hitting a golf ball caused it. Finger was swollen/bruised for about 10 days , then went back normal .

    Hopefully this is all that happened to you .


  • #4
    BiffoGooner
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭BiffoGooner


    mscull wrote: »
    2 years ago I was teeing off and caught the ball awkwardly and got a similar sensation to yours , actually caused me to drop the club . It was my left ring finger , so I had to take off my wedding ring cos it swelled up. I finished the round badly as you can imagine and after 3 days went to GP who said it was just soft tissue damage but he couldnt explain how hitting a golf ball caused it. Finger was swollen/bruised for about 10 days , then went back normal .

    Hopefully this is all that happened to you .


    It's a strange one.Could be a nerve or something like that.Sure I'll give it a few more days and see what happens.


    Conno, I'm moved by your concern.I'll soldier on, don't you be worryin' about me now.


  • #5
    NoelAPM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 447 ✭✭NoelAPM


    Might be what they talk about in my world of carprntry... white finger, which is nerve damage. It's seems strange however that you would have the symptoms.. its normally from excessive use of a tool which vibrates, kango hammer for example.. should maybe get it checked out! I think that sorta damage to nerves can be unreversable.


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