Notify your doctor if you have a hand fracture and any of the following:

• Hand swelling
• Deformed hand
• Inability to fully move the hand or finger
• Tenderness over the hand bones
• Worsening hand pain
• Worsening hand swelling
• Worsening redness and swelling around a wound
• Persistent hand pain that is not improving after 3 days of home care

If you are placed in a cast or splint, notify your doctor for:

• Blue skin color
• Worsening pain under the cast
• Loss of feeling in the fingers
• Loss of skin color in the fingers
• Loss of finger circulation
• Worsening finger pain