5 Treatment Tips for Swollen Fingers After Broken Elbow: Why Fingers Swell and How to Help

Hand expert, Michelle shares 3 reasons WHY your fingers swell after an elbow fracture, dislocation, or other injury. Then she'll show you HOW to help swelling with 5 treatment tips to decrease your swollen fingers while in an elbow cast.

Reasons why your fingers may swell are due to gravity, limited use, and elbow casts or braces preventing the fluid from moving out of your hand.

The treatment tips for swollen fingers after a broken elbow include elevation, active motion, compression, seeking guidance from your doctor or hand therapist, and more!

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0:00 INTRODUCTION to 5 Treatment Tips for Swollen Fingers After Broken Elbow: Why Fingers Swell and How to Help
0:30 GRAVITY
1:13 LIMITED USE
1:55 CAST OR BRACE RESTRICTIONS
2:55 ELEVATE
4:34 MASSAGE
5:46 EXERCISE
8:31 COMPRESSION
9:12 SEE A DOCTOR OR HAND THERAPIST

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This video is for educational and demonstration purposes only and is not to be used as a replacement for seeking medical advice or treatment of your condition. Virtual Hand Care, or its members, do not offer medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always consult with your doctor or healthcare provider before starting any exercise program. Please know that performing any exercise or program is solely at your own risk.

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Learn 5 Treatment Tips for Swollen Fingers After Broken Elbow. 💪In this video you'll learn why your fingers swell and what you can do about it right away! Your whole body can feel stiff with a broken elbow, especially your fingers. If you found these tips helpful let me know in the comments below. 🙌 LIKE and SUBSCRIBE to show your support. 🙏

[honeybakes]

Thank God I found this video. I have a fracture on my upper arm and because of the cast my hand is swelling and it really bothers me.

[kimkeeler]

Thanks so much for this! My fingers hurt just as much as my fractured elbow because of the swelling! 😅

[faithsnow]

Thank you for these videos. I broke my elbow and now find that my hand is very swollen. Your service is a life saver for me!

[eseAktive]

i just dislocated my elbow a week ago currently in a on and off brace they took the temporary cast off so this is really helpful because it’s now on me to try to get my movement back and ofc losing the swelling

[SLAORE]

Watch ASAP. I am 3 months after a major hand surgery. My hand has limited movement and swelling. I can only wonder were I would be today if I had started sooner. It's not that I didn't move my fingers it's more like I could have been smarter in my exercise. All of her videos provide value.
After watching several I discovered I was doing my hand exercise wrong. Working smart and hard is better than working wrong and hard. 😊
Good luck to everyone. I took my hand for granted. Now I am trying to get it back.

[ludinasallam]

Very helpful, relieved my worry and showed me what to do! I broke elbow one week ago and am waiting for surgery and was concerned about all the swellling.

[janicegreen]

Thank you so much, I feel I know have hope!

[patrickcleere]

Thank you so much for the helpful tips x

[stephanietisa]

My mom dislocated shoulder and fractured arm THIS IS SOOO BEYOND REASSURING her fingers and wrist are swelling!! THANK YOU SO MUCH ❤❤❤

[edwardaguado]

Thank you. This was exactly the info I needed.

[mevw]

THANK YOU!!! So glad I finally googled swollen fingers and broken elbow. Neither the ortho doc nor the primary care NP gave any tips for dealing with the swelling -- they both blamed the sling and suggested I ease up on using it a bit. Not much help. Can't tell you how happy I am to see your video. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[nikkiswenson]

Thank you for all of your extremely helpful videos! ❤🎉

[lauriesmith]

Your video is very helpful and brings ease to my mind.

[jifraser]

very useful. I tried your sggestions and they worked. Thank you.

[betsybenson]

I got a bone bruise injury in my right arm close to 2 months ago from a fall at the local grocery store and the only way I prevented from having swollen fingers was to use both the elastic bandage/gauze a little more loosely than usual instead of tightening it to help with/the blood flow and not getting purple ones when you lose circulation

[ruxer]

Just keep opening and closing your hand till the swelling go. I kept doing that for days till the swelling go

[janetwarren-dunford]

I only found you yesterday, wish I had found you weeks ago? I broke my elbow 6 weeks ago, full arm cast comes off tomorrow. I have only been following a couple of your videos for two days and what a difference 😊, I can now bend my fingers and get my thumb to touch my little finger, before that I could not bend any of fingers almost at all, as you say felt like concrete, Thank you sooo much. ❤

[tiffanymitchellsetliff]

As a recent severe elbow injury person that Splint/Cast/Brace looks so much more comfortable than the ones I had!!! ( I slept elevated at night and also did something called a Six Pack of hand exercises, helped a lot)

[GuillermoAGonzalez_STR]

Thanks very much it’s great to see there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Broke my elbow and going through all these issues. Cast came off 2 weeks ago physical Therapy starts in 2 days I am in a rush to start moving my arm, but the swelling in my hand just gets in the way big time.