Comments on: Weight Lifting with a Broken Finger

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Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:11:47 +0000

[...] shared my experience of lifting weights after breaking my ring finger. It had had a week to heal, and while there were no rings that were going to fit on it at that [...]

By: Blaine Moore

Blaine Moore — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:37:21 +0000

I didn’t bother getting it x-rayed because it is a waste of money. It was just a bad jam; there wasn’t really a need for a splint and if there was I could have done that myself. There’s nothing else to do but let it heal.

I gave it a week when it was black and blue and swollen to just use it normally and not with lifting, because I did not want to trust holding a barbell with my own body weight with a bad finger. I still typed and used it like normal though.

It is not 100% yet but I am back to lifting with it. I feel like it could support the weight enough to get me through my workouts without dropping something and hurting something else. As long as the swelling is gone so that I can fit my wedding band on in a month I’ll be all set.

By: Bud Gibson

Bud Gibson — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 13:18:17 +0000

Have you had this finger x-rayed? BTW, everything I read says you are better off continuing to exercise while healing *unless* you are damaging the affected area.

Thanks for the links. We’re going to do leg press series based on a request from Scott Bird.