Hammer Fingers

What is a hammer finger deformity?
The hammer finger is called when the most extreme knuckle of the fingers outside the head is collided with a hard surface.

How does hammering finger deformity occur?
The injury may be closed or open. Closed injuries may occur when housewives are trying to squeeze the bed sheet between the bed and the base or when the men try to put their shirts in the trousers. In addition, daily life can cause the same result in the fall of the finger. An open injury is caused by an incisor with a sharp cut on the back of the first knuckle or middle finger.

Why does the hammer finger deformity cause problems?
Hammer finger deformity may be bone-derived or tendon-induced.

Bone-induced deformity:
The tendon, which adheres to the tip bone of the fingers, breaks the bone piece of adherence. such injuries usually require surgical treatment.

Tendon-induced deformity:
The tendon (beam) that lifts the last knuckle of our fingers straight up is cut or cut from the insertion into the end bone due to the reasons described above, thus losing the tendon function.

How is hammer-to-finger deformity treated?
Bone-induced deformity:
Bone-induced deformities are usually treated surgically. During the fracture healing that will last for about 6-8 weeks, small steel wires are placed over the skin to hold the broken piece in place.

Tendon-induced deformity:
Tendon-induced deformities are usually treated in a non-surgical manner. In these patients, the use of various orthoses or athletes with an average of 8 weeks holding the fingers flat would be sufficient for the tendon to stick back into place. Injured injuries are treated by surgical repair.

What are the complications of hammer finger deformity?
There may be persistent miscarriage of the patient despite the inability to use the orthosis, neglecting the incisions, initiation of early movement in surgical repaired patients or adequate intervention. In addition, neglected finger deformities in the middle of the fingers (Proximal Interphalangeal Joint) is curled upward. In this case, swan neck deformity occurs on the finger.

Complications can be corrected?
In the case of hammer-to-finger deformities, where the required smoothness cannot be achieved despite treatment, revision can be done by various techniques.