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04-03-2011, 06:14 PM
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So apperently they have a name for my weird and twisted fingers.
So now I'm supposed to get some type of braces/rings (tripoint splints I think) to prevent PIP joint hyper-extension.
Anybody here has swan neck fingers? Did those braces worked for you? Did you simply not care and still have them twisted? Anybody has problems related to swan neck fingers? |
04-03-2011, 09:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sully, Iowa | | | No picture.. no... fingers?
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04-03-2011, 10:54 PM
|  | Master of Reality | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: San Diego, CA | | | I know a guy with those. I didn't know it had a name, or an explanation and I was too afraid of being punched in the face polite to ask him about it.
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04-03-2011, 11:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana | | | Oh man. How is playing an instrument w/ those. |
04-04-2011, 04:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New-brunswick | | My case is not as extreme as the google image ones, I guess I'll take some mandatory pics later. My main concern atm is to know if you can actually play bass / ride bike / etc etc with those braces.
Them fingers in a relaxed position: 
Them fingers crisped: 
Gotta clip my nails, and yes I have long fingers 
As far as playing goes they're not a problem, but I'm a sucky hack that can barely play bass/guitar so it does not matter much 
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04-04-2011, 06:21 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Sully, Iowa | | | Ah, so you're just double jointed in your fingers from the look of it? I've got a couple of friends that can do that. Quite a few of them play piano without any problem, but I don't know about any of them playing guitar/bass
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04-04-2011, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New-brunswick | | | Dunno if it's the same as double jointed but when the orthopedist saw my fingers he was quite shocked and it sounded like an emergency crisis of some sort and he told me to go see my doc to get a prescription for the finger splints. |
04-04-2011, 09:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eh? | | Your condition can be caused by inflammation or some sort of arthritis. Your orthopedist is right in urging things a bit so you don't damage your fingers further.
I have a mild form of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, so I don't like hearing of swan neck fingers 
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04-04-2011, 12:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New-brunswick | | | Yeah, I have a doc appointement on the 12th and one with the ortho on the 15th.
What's exactly Ehlers-Danlos? The wiki page doesn't say much. |
04-04-2011, 12:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Ziltoid Yeah, I have a doc appointement on the 12th and one with the ortho on the 15th.
What's exactly Ehlers-Danlos? The wiki page doesn't say much. | I don't know a ton as I'm lucky and it's minor, but it makes me double-jointed in the fingers and wrists, and my hips and shoulders are prone to dislocating.
I learnt if from a nurse because there's a scar on my leg that didn't heal normally, and it's a condition that affects collagen (is it collagen? I think it is, not certain).
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04-04-2011, 12:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Ziltoid Them fingers crisped:
Gotta clip my nails, and yes I have long fingers | I am now in the process of changing your username to Salad Fingers. |
04-04-2011, 12:58 PM
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04-04-2011, 01:16 PM
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04-04-2011, 01:20 PM
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04-04-2011, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler I am now in the process of changing your username to Salad Fingers. | Those are surely no Salad Fingers! 
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04-04-2011, 02:51 PM
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Ziltoid also made some extra money in the early 80s working as a hand model for Steven Spielberg 
I'm actually jealous- I've got short, inflexible fingers. I bet those things could be really useful. |
04-04-2011, 02:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | If my fingers were any shorter I'd consider them Vienna Sausages.
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04-04-2011, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Bryan R. Tyler I'm actually jealous- I've got short, inflexible fingers. I bet those things could be really useful. | Hehe, I can reach index on the 1st pinky on the 6th (35" scale), 1-5 if we're talking to actually do it "fast" and not look like a tard. Imagine the chords possibilities!
Now, I'm just teasing I'm a talentless hack
And I never got my check from Spielberg, that dam thief!
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04-04-2011, 04:18 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Seweracuse, NY | | | Use the rings/braces.
My mom (now 80) has swanning of her fingers from arthritis and they're about 80% non functional. Hers eventually bent back rather than down and some at odd angles. Its not anything you want.
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04-04-2011, 04:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: New-brunswick | | The man with the sexy rasta dingwall has spoken! But yh I was planning onto fixing those fingers | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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