Cheradenine Posted October 16, 2003 Posted October 16, 2003 About 6 months ago I had my thumb sprained when I went to attack someone while sparring... it hurt like hell, went all stiff for about a month,and even now its still a little tight around the base. Just as I thought I was over it.. guess what? It happened to the other thumb last night!!!!!!!! Is this common in martial arts? The valuable lesson I learned from the first time it happened was that maybe my thumb wasn't tucked in enough when attacking... but either way I cringe at th thought of having to go through all this pain again... can anyone recommend ointments or steches or anything? Cheers..
chh Posted October 16, 2003 Posted October 16, 2003 Been there! I sprained my right thumb, and then the left one a few days later, then re-injured both the darn things frequently for weeks and weeks afterwards. Apparently my hands figured out whatever they were doing wrong and cut it out, and now (several months later) I'm finally feeling like they're almost 100% healed. I did wear a thumb splint for a couple of weeks on the right one when it was particularly messed up, really just to remind myself to protect it during practice (and so my fellow students would quit bashing it). That helped. Icy-hot cream loosened it up a little when it was really bugging me, and putting ice on it after a re-injury seemed to do some good.
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