What to do if you poke your index finger playing volleyball

Volleyball index finger injury belongs to the more common sports injuries, easy to produce pain and swelling and joint movement limitation symptoms, can be used physical factor therapy, drug therapy or surgical treatment methods to relieve. 1. Physical factor therapy: after playing volleyball index finger injury, in the acute stage (within 72 hours) can be relieved by local ice packs to prevent pain and swelling from worsening. In the later stage, it can be combined with magnetic heat therapy to promote blood circulation and help speed up the recovery. 2. Medication: If the pain and swelling of the index finger are obvious, you can consider taking anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, and drugs that promote blood circulation and eliminate blood stasis such as Panax ginseng tablets. 3. Surgery: If the poke injury of the index finger is more serious and has already produced local fracture and displacement phenomenon, it needs to be treated by splint external fixation or surgical incision and restoration of internal fixation to prevent the function of the finger from being affected in the later stage. After the occurrence of index finger poke injury can not continue to move the finger joints, otherwise it is easy to lead to the aggravation of the symptoms, you can go to the orthopedic department, under the guidance of professional doctors to carry out targeted treatment, as far as possible to alleviate the symptoms and restore the function of the finger, so as to avoid the later generation of joint mobility disorders, don’t blindly use medication.