Broken hand during the Lockdown

DEFTLEFTHAND

I fell off a bike during the lockdown and broke my hand. I've had the injury before through hurling, it's known as a boxers fracture. Fifth metacarpal bone broken. Because of covid I didn't go to hospital, my own choice. Just taped it up and wore a homemade sling for a couple of weeks.

It's come just as good as the time I had to be X rayed and put into a cast for 6 weeks. Theres a lot to be said for this self medicating business. lol

alchemist33

"Fell off a bike" eh? EH?

Uncharted

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DEFTLEFTHAND

It was the right hand I did not the left.

Uncharted

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It was the right hand I did not the left.

Exactly

Bogfairy

Don't be telling porkies now. Ya were pullin' the stomach off yourself weren't ya? Ya dirty decker ya.....

corner of hells

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

I fell off a bike during the lockdown and broke my hand. I've had the injury before through hurling, it's known as a boxers fracture. Fifth metacarpal bone broken. Because of covid I didn't go to hospital, my own choice. Just taped it up and wore a homemade sling for a couple of weeks.

It's come just as good as the time I had to be X rayed and put into a cast for 6 weeks. Theres a lot to be said for this self medicating business. lol

You should set yourself up as a doctor, sure what could go wrong.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

It was the right hand I did not the left.

Yes. but while the right hand was recovering surely you used the left a bit more adding to it's deftness?

Gregor Samsa

In fairness, it was the little finger in your left hand - the most inconsequential of all fingers. If you’d smashed your femur in a bear attack and patched it back up with duct tape and the bear’s femur, I could understand the need for a thread.

Asset management

Happens all the time playing hurling, doctors will still insist you boxed someone.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Asset management wrote: »

Happens all the time playing hurling, doctors will still insist you boxed someone.

If it's hurling, they probably did.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Bogfairy wrote: »

Don't be telling porkies now. Ya were pullin' the stomach off yourself weren't ya? Ya dirty decker ya.....

You're not going to fracture a fifth metacarpal by pumping yourself off, no matter how hard you were going at it.

The injury occurred from a fall from a bicycle, severve and sudden impact with a road.

corner of hells

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

You're not going to fracture a fifth metacarpal by pumping yourself off, no matter how hard you were going at it.

The injury occurred from a fall from a bicycle, severve and sudden impact with a road.

Unless you were pulling yourself apart while cycling the bike.

Rodney Bathgate

corner of hells wrote: »

Unless you were pulling yourself apart while cycling the bike.

While sniffing a bike saddle more like.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Asset management wrote: »

Happens all the time playing hurling, doctors will still insist you boxed someone.

Same thing with me the first time I suffered this injury, fella chopped down on my hand during a game as I was going to rise the ball.


The common name for it is a boxers fracture, It's a very common injury in the sport of boxing. It sort of looks like you've chinned somebody, the knuckle on the pinkie disappears and a big knot develops.

Rodney Bathgate

Glad to hear you have fully recovered.

Mad_maxx

Reading thread's likes this makes me jealous, I had a concrete block fall on my foot over two years ago and the pain is as bad today as in June 2018,here's the OP right as rain within months

DEFTLEFTHAND

Mad_maxx wrote: »

Reading thread's likes this makes me jealous, I had a concrete block fall on my foot over two years ago and the pain is as bad today as in June 2018,here's the OP right as rain within months

Might have been a more complex injury than mine. The type of injury I substained will most likelyheal up in 6 to 8 weeks with a cast on, there usually wouldn't be any surgery or anything like that involved with it. I had it taped up for 4 weeks and wore a handmade sling for about 10 days.

I knew how to treat it because I ,had, had the exact same injury on a previous occasion.