Trashed my knucke by punching the wall in a fit of rage and now my knuckle looks huge, put some “jow” on it for a couple days, and it started feeling better, went to class on Sunday and i think i trashed it even more.
Any ideas?
More “jow” or is time for the doctor? Right now its doing this funny gringing thing when i open and close my fist.
Has anyone ever f***ed their hand real bad?
If so, how? And what did you do?
Thanks
skard
Its not what goes in a man that defile’s him, its what comes out.
Did something semi-similar (except the power of my manos de piedros would have destoyed any wall!)
Punched my refrigerator and bashed a knuckle pretty bad…it healed with time. Try ice for 10-15 minutes at a time to keep swelling down for a few days. Ice it every couple hours. Bag of frozen peas works great to mold the contours.
We are trained in wushu; we must protect the Temple!
Something similar happened to me when I punched through 8 inches of sheet metal with no gloves. Just take it easy on that hand for a while. The grinding thing sounds a little suspicious, though. If you’re worried, get it checked out.
I was once trying to break boards with a palm (nothing in a dojo just me being stupid), i decided to switch to knuckle, and well after that my hand BLEW up! I couldnt move my hand and it got swollen as sh!t (not just the knuckle, the HAND got swollen).
Fortunetly it wasnt broken, but it’s 3 years ago and to this day my knuckle is still overly big and sometimes it’s still sore.
“The grinding thing sounds a little suspicious”
Mr.Nemo-I agree, it feels real strange but there’s no pain, so i hope tomorrow it feels better if not ill get it checked.
thanks
skard
Its not what goes in a man that defile’s him, its what comes out.
hmm I punched mine out when I was younger, they all healed. but my knuckles don’t look normal, they have been protrusive (?? is this the right word) ever since…
Well, I have smashed my fists quite a few times and one of my knuckles was damged for a couple of years.
It was the weirdest thing, I could strike things but at certain times, I would get a throb in the knuckles… sometimes from just resting my habd against something.
The grinding thing sounds bad but you should open and close your fists for a few minutes a day. That will get the blood flowing and should help to heal your hand. Stretching exercise are good. IF you feel a lot of pain doing these things, then you should see a Doctor. A sports doctor is better as General practioners often just don’t understand.
Hearing what various US participants of this board have said about going to see a doctor when they are sick/injured really makes me appreciate the system we have here. The prohibitive cost of health care in the US sounds like it makes life pretty sucky at times. I think in Oz we take free healthcare a little for granted.
Me personally, if it doesn’t get better in the next day or so I would get it checked out. Grinding in a joint can never be good.
i’ve split my knuckles a few times in the first couple weeks when i had just started Wing Chun. I’ve never bashed my knuckles really bad, but a month or so ago, i sprained my pinky finger really bad while i was working on the wooden dummy. I thought it was busted, it swelled and turned blue!! i went to the doctor but it wasn’t broken thank goodness.
using jow is a good thing, but do see a doctor and have the hand x-rayed. You may have damage to small bones that will not heal properly without some rest and treatment.
The knuckle is mostly cartilage and will heal funny if it isn’t taken care of on a daily basis.
Use dit da jow and massage the affected area to keep the scar tissue from building up and filling in the gaps where the damage is.
Get an x-ray to make sure you haven’t damaged the bone to badly, and lay off punching bags, boards or other surfaces.
In a little while (10 - 20 days) it will begin to feel better. But if you don’t take care of it it will not heal properly.
I dont get it. I punch brick walls all the time with some power to it, and it only hurts a few hours. This morning, I put my fist through the closet door and took it off the hinges (I told my mom I stubbed my toe and fell, which, after I realized I needed to tell the truth, I smacked my toe into the chair and fell into the closet door on purpose). I punch concrete, brick walls, wood, metal, and even the bathroom sink. I don’t hurt my hands. It lasts, at most, a day (thats if I hit incorrectly). So how come this guy hurts his hand once?
I dont like hospitals so I dont go. If I was REALLY injured, I would go.
My hand is healed(I think…) but it was the weirdest thing.
I would just grab my hand lightly and it would hurt like hell. Yet I could hit a heavy bag. Oh well.
I have never used the herbal stuff as I believe in my own body but it is probably a good thing to try. I use my training methods to toughen myslef up, but the accepted wisdom is to use the Dit.
You definetly need xrays, a couple years ago in a drunken rage I managed to crack a plexi glass bus stall with a punch. A couple ppl just said it was ok dont worry about it. So I was like ok… went and got xrays next day 5th metacarpal fracture crack at 4th metacarpal. ALWAYS GET X RAYS.
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