What should I do if my finger is swollen while playing basketball?
When playing basketball, you should stop exercising immediately and use ice or cold water to compress it to see if your fingers are broken. If it is serious, you should go to the hospital for treatment.
1 cold compress with ice or cold water.
If the finger swelling is not too serious, and the time does not exceed 48 hours, it is recommended to use ice or cold water immediately. At this time, don't continue to play ball or use drugs that promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis, which will only make blood vessel damage more serious. Cold compress must be timely.
Fracture of 2 fingers
If the injury is serious and the finger is too red and swollen, it is likely that the finger is broken. Suggest going to the hospital immediately. The hospital will analyze the reduction, fixation, functional exercise and dressing according to the degree of your finger injury. It usually takes a month. If you don't see a doctor in time and handle it yourself, it is likely to leave a deformity and cause irreparable harm to your body.
Can I continue playing basketball with my finger injured?
No, we should stop and check the injury first.
If you hurt your finger while playing basketball, you should avoid playing basketball again until you fully recover. Intense exercise will aggravate the injury and increase the recovery time.
Why does playing basketball hurt your finger?
Basketball is an intense sport. When catching a fastball or grabbing the ball, the finger hits the ball vertically, which may cause the finger to be impacted by external force, resulting in finger joint injury.
Characteristics of basketball
1 antagonism: the duration of basketball can be long or short, but participants are required to run quickly, take off suddenly and continuously, and compete for agility and strength.
2. Collectivity: Basketball requires athletes not only to have technical and tactical abilities, but also to have wisdom, courage, will, vitality and creativity in the competition. Athletes must also have a brave and tenacious fighting spirit and a spirit of unity and cooperation.
3 Appreciation: In the basketball game, you can enjoy skillful dribbling, clever passing, accurate shooting, witty steals, wonderful dunks and surprising blocks, coupled with staggered attack and defense, confrontation and transformation, which makes the two sides of the game fight wits and brave, and the situation on the court changes greatly, and both participants and spectators can get psychological satisfaction and pleasure.
Fitness: By participating in basketball, people can not only keep fit, but also develop their own personality, self-confidence, aesthetic taste, willpower, enterprise and self-discipline, which is also conducive to cultivating the moral quality of unity and cooperation, respect for opponents and fair competition.