Broken fingers will heal well with little or no discomfort but it takes up to a year or more to achieve this. Part of the problem you have to understand is the most common problem encountered after treatment of fractures in the fingers is joint stiffness. By immobilizing the fingers, the capsule and surrounding tissue form scar tissue around the joint. It becomes a race to heal the bone before the joint becomes too stiff and a decrease in motion occurs.
Arnica cream and tablets are a great way to help reduce this scar tissue. See the link
http://www.ehow.com/about_5037570_arnica-cream.html
I agree with Schlyder in that you have to work the injury, but understand the difference between uncomfortable and pain.
Taking the "paper" therapy to a different level, the idea is the same but the benefits are increased because of the motions and resistance used, is to use children's play putty, plastercine, or play doe. Again you use it to roll small balls with your fingers, but you can squeeze it and reshape it, then roll it again. You can the use golf ball size amounts to squeeze an shape then roll about in both hands then again squeeze and re-shape. This is great for the hands because there is gentle resistance for the hands to build strength and tone.
Take it a step further and make two large balls and roll them around like Chinese Baoding balls but do not let them touch, see the link. Even investing in Boading balls is money well spent. Squash,or golf balls will help you to do the exercises as well and is a great therapy for the hands and again you will find so many lessons on the web.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyuIu...eature=related
Finger design means that a joint is never far away from a point of injury so joint stiffness is always an issue because of the immobilization of the initial recovery, so don't push it in dexterity work, let it build to it.
