It’s a hot summer day. You are running backwards, squinting. The softball is high in the heavens and your glove is open, ready to swallow the soaring sphere. There are two outs and your team is behind. The ball starts its decent, your team holds its collective breath as the ball smashes into your glove-breaking your pinkie finger as it nestles violently into the webbing. Yee-ouch! Time to get to an Urgent Care Center.

Urgent care centers have been popping up all over the country. They are the perfect place to get help for any non-life threatening injury. The days of waiting 10 hours inside a germ-infested hospital emergency room are over. Finito! Americans are getting hip to the care they can receive at other facilities-and they are visiting them in droves. If you happen to break a finger while at work or play, get yourself to an urgent care center for the best help available-without all the waiting and boredom.

Broken Fingers
A broken finger causes pain immediately. You may not know at first that the finger is indeed broken, but you know that there has been severe damage to it. Look at your finger. Try to bend it. If it is broken there will be sharp pain. There may also be some deformity to the finger. This usually happens if the bone is broken at the joint area. You will have immediate swelling at the site.

There are different types of breaks (or fractures as they are also known). If your skin has been torn by the break and is poking through the skin, this type of injury is termed an “open fracture.” A “closed fracture” is when the bones are not protruding from the skin. If more than one bone in the finger has been broken this is termed a “comminuted fracture.”

No matter the type of fracture, get yourself to an urgent care center ASAP. Broken fingers are primarily treated with pain medication such as Tylenol with Codeine and Vicodin. These pills are only to be taken according to the doctor’s instructions, as they are powerful and opiate-based. Other treatments includes the splinting or bracing of the finger in question. Sometimes surgical repair must be done to gain full usage of the finger.

When surgery is required, it is common for little screws to be placed inside the finger to hold the broken bones in their original shape. Physical therapy may be needed after such a surgery. The finger will be stiff and will not bend back to its original positioning for several months afterwards. It is important to keep up with the therapy, as they are trained professionals and they know all the tricks of the trade to get your finger back to normalcy.

Remember that finger fractures come in varied shapes & sizes and although many of them can be healed effectively through splinting, you may need to undergo true surgery. The most important thing is to get the finger diagnosed correctly at an urgent care center or specialist. Our fingers are highly sensitive and just the smallest amount of displacement can cause difficulty in almost all of our everyday activities, including typing, shoe tying and even reaching into your pocket for cash.

Author Bio: If you happen to reside in the New York City area (including all the surrounding boroughs) you may want to visit Urgent Care NYC located just two short blocks from Grand Central Station. Log onto Walk-In Clinic NYC and click the Urgent Care tab for more information. Or simply dial 1-212-696-5900 to speak to a representative and arrange a convenient appointment. Your finger may be small but the damage can be huge

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