Broken finger
| 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. |
A broken finger or finger fracture is a common type of bone fracture, affecting a finger. Symptoms may include pain, swelling, tenderness, bruising, deformity and reduced ability to move the finger. Although most finger fractures are easy to treat, failing to deal with a fracture appropriately may result in long-term pain and disability.
The cause is usually traumatic injury. These are most commonly falls, crushing injuries, and sports injuries. Pathological fractures, from an infection or a tumour, are rarer.