Is it just a bad sprain or is it fractured (thumb)?!
Question: Is it just a bad sprain or is it fractured (thumb).?
Yesterday (SAT 11th Oct 08) I had my normal Saturday morning cricket match and I went into bat.
The bowler had bowled a fast bouncer to which I had played a back-foot defensive shot. The ball had hit my thumb instead of the bat. This was around 9:15am and it's still hurting like hell.
The thumb is slightly swollen. Health Question & Answer
The bowler had bowled a fast bouncer to which I had played a back-foot defensive shot. The ball had hit my thumb instead of the bat. This was around 9:15am and it's still hurting like hell.
The thumb is slightly swollen. Health Question & Answer
Answers:
Unfortunately a bad sprain can be just as bad or even worse of an injury then a fracture. However, from your description it sounds like the ball impacted the thumb itself between the ball and the bat.? This would sound more like a bad bruise or break. If the ball hit the thumb and caused it to get pulled back/stretched then more of a sprain. Either way, I would see a doctor. It is amazing how much a thumb injury can change how you do everything in your life. An injury causing permeate damage would not be good. Play it safe and see a doctor on Monday. If you get extreme pain, the thumb swells to a painful size or you see problems with blood flow to it then go sooner. Health Question & Answer
If you can bend it then its not broken
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Might be broken. It depends on how hard it was hit.Health Question & Answer