stiff finger

Gordon

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My daughter slipped with glass in hand and cut her hand in two places and required stitches. A "nurse" at an International Clinic gave her 4 stitches near the joint and two where the finger attaches to the hand. The finger is not healing well and showing signs of numbness and stiffness. It has been two months now. She cannot bend her finger from one joint and the other one is fair. Two doctors from the same clinic have said it is muscular and to exercise it and prescribed methol rub. Another doctor says it is nerve damage and requires surgery. Could someone make some suggestions as to getting this attended to with some assurance as to a professional approach? TY
 

Hillbilly

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Get her to a specialist: Orthopedist....Enrique Anico at Centro Medico Cibao is good.

Obviously something is not right, especially with a child.

there are other options also, but see a good orthopedist first..

HB
 

william webster

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Is she current w/ her Hepatitas B.....

Agree on the tendon suspicion.... I have one finger that doesn't work at all since 4 yrs old... tendon - fell on a glass
But I have sensation
 

jrjrth

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Best of Luck and don't wait too much longer....sounds like something brewing...

~I'm not a doctor, however read this and perhaps an EMG is in order for the Nina...

Electromyogram (EMG) and Nerve Conduction Studies
An electromyogram (EMG) measures the electrical activity of muscles at rest and during contraction. Nerve conduction studies measure how well and how fast the nerves can send electrical signals.

Nerves control the muscles in the body with electrical signals called impulses. These impulses make the muscles react in specific ways. Nerve and muscle problems cause the muscles to react in abnormal ways.

If you have leg pain or numbness, you may have these tests to find out how much your nerves are being affected. These tests check how well your spinal cord, nerve roots, and nerves and muscles that control your legs are working.

Why It Is Done
An EMG is done to:

Find diseases that damage muscle tissue, nerves, or the junctions between nerve and muscle. These problems may include a herniated disc, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or myasthenia gravis (MG).
Find the cause of weakness, paralysis, or muscle twitching. Problems in a muscle, the nerves supplying a muscle, the spinal cord, or the area of the brain that controls a muscle can cause these symptoms. The EMG does not show brain or spinal cord diseases.
A nerve conduction study is done to:

Find damage to the peripheral nervous system, which includes all the nerves that lead away from the brain and spinal cord and the smaller nerves that branch out from those nerves. This test is often used to help find nerve problems such as carpal tunnel syndrome or Guillain-Barr? syndrome.
 

Gordon

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Thank you all for your input. We will go with the orthopedist route to start the next stage. Hep B is current WW.