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Hand Surgeon, Plastic Surgeon
A “mallet finger” is a common condition that can result from a seemingly minor injury (such as tucking in a bedsheet, or removing clothing) or more commonly from a sporting injury or fall.After such an injury it is impossible for you actively straighten the fingertip - so when you try to straighten all your fingers the tip of the affected finger hangs down.This is because the insertion of the extensor tendon (which straightens the end joint of the finger) has been disrupted. Sometimes it is the tendon itself that ruptures, and sometimes the tendon is intact but the bone that it joins onto has broken (fractured). Either way, the effect is that the tendon can no longer do its job of straightening the finger.
For more information about mallet finger injury and treatment please visit the Melbourne Hand Surgery website.
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I have attached a good illustration of this tendon rupture below.
Mallet Finger Injury
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