[Closed] Broken finger

Now you big girl - man up. 🙂

Tomorrow.

Its only a pinkie, Ride it off!

I did it last year. Was 7 weeks before I could ride on road, about 12 weeks before I could ride off road without a lot of pain.

Pics?

Here's one I made earlier..............

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Would like to be out next weekend. Finger crossed 😉

Then go out.

I used to bust them regularly, being a wicket keeper. Usually played the next week because missing out would mean losing your spot in the team. Painful when you catch it badly again, but nothing a real man can't poke up with, with a couple of nurofen inside him.

Not sure off road rocky descents with broken fingers are gonna help in the long term. 🙁

tape it to the finger nextdoor

Cheers guys, miss judged a five bar gate. Clipped it around 25 mph (Part open) left hand & forearm. Then ripped my L'hs to bits. Deep joy. Riding buddies pissed themselves

I'd give it a few weeks to allow the bone to fuse. If you don't you may well just end up going back to step 1 meaning more time off the bike.

I thought Dave did a good job opening the gate for me, needs to change his name to 'Fall Off Dave'! 🙂

I went otb in July and bent mine back, prob broke it, still not fixed 5 months later. Meh

Depends on how bad it is

If its a joint break (most likely) then a load of ibuprofen will sort it as long as its not yer braking finger.

Broke mine on the first day of a 4 day trip to France and it didn't stop me. Then broke the thumb on me other hand two days later. Still rode though.

Bin to A&E, double fracture diagnosed. Stella not working

It'll vary.

When I broke my thumb I rode the rest of the race (and beat my mate) and it wasn't til halfway through the ride the next day that I decided I should really stop riding. Had a few days off then carried on- it was pretty bloody painful but it worked properly.

But when I broke my first finger on the other hand, I wouldn't have even tried to ride a bike for weeks (I wasn't riding at the time but I couldn't use a pen never mind a bike). There was more to that one than just pain, the hand was pretty useless.

I broke my little finger and rode a few days later, the vibrations on the road were bloody painful though! Didn't look as bad as Druid's photo, so I'd suggest you exercise common sense!

I was out last year from the 24th of March to the 3rd of June with a 'significant' trauma injury to my left index finger. Mine'd structurally healed fine sooner than the date's would suggest, but pulling on a brake, and/or dealing with the vibration from the ride for a good while after the actual healing phase was just *too* much to deal with, and that really surprised me (and shocked me a bit too), as I normally heal injuries out in no time.

Mine was far more generally incapacitating than I'd have ever expected too (plus in use it swelled up to the point that it looked like I had a chimpanzees finger grafted on after use) ...

So yeah, common sense, that finger has got to last you the rest of your life. I went out trail-running when I couldn't ride, and tried very hard to tuck that hand in when I fell ... 😉

The first joint on mine was completely smashed and is now fused solid. I didn't realise I'd broken it, carried on riding that day and was scrambling in Torridon the next. It was a week before I went to the doc.

I was riding 3-4 weeks after breaking it. Gently at first....