Baseball Finger
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Baseball Finger Symptoms
Symptoms of baseball finger include:
Finger deformity:
Inability to completely straighten the last joint in the finger
Finger pain
Finger
swelling
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Related Topics:
Finger dislocation
Finger fracture
Finger injury
Finger pain
Finger sprain
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Finger injury
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Last Updated: Apr 3, 2008
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Stephen J. Schueler, MD
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John H. Beckett, MD
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D. Scott Gettings, MD
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Baseball Finger References:
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Hart RG, Kleinert HE, Lyons K. The Kleinert modified dorsal finger splint for mallet finger fracture. Am J Emerg Med. 2005 Mar;23(2):145-8.
Kalainov DM, Hoepfner PE, Hartigan BJ, Carroll C 4th, Genuario J. Nonsurgical treatment of closed mallet finger fractures. J Hand Surg [Am]. 2005 May;30(3):580-6.
Lester B, Jeong GK, Perry D, Spero L. A simple effective splinting technique for the mallet finger. Am J Orthop. 2000 Mar;29(3):202-6.
