Hi,
i have this small injury at my left ring finger that has been going on for a while now...starting to look seriously at it but i'm just not really sure what it might be.
symptoms :
-main symptom is ache when squeezing my fist, pressing my fingertip into my palm. Normally this doesn't hurt at all, or it only hurts the synovial capsule, but one day after a couple of laps on a crimpy boulder, it did hurt in a weird way. There was no sudden shock such as dynoing or cutting my feet loose. I might have been dehydrated since it was pretty damn warm and humid conditions.
-when squeezing/massaging my finger, the hot spot seems to be on the second phalanx, closer to the PIP joint, slightly to one side (towards my pinky). This is what puzzles me, it seems to be where the C2 pulley or the beginning of A4 are, but both seem to be very rarely occurring alone, and my a2-a3 seem fine.
-no evident bowstringing
-it hurts much more in the morning, especially the first 1/2 hourafter waking up. One evening i might think i'm fine, and when i wake up i try to squeeze my fist or massage or gently crimp something, and i get depressed...the pain isn't gone
i tried to climb through it at a gentle level and probably made it worse...small sessions on big jugs with well-taped finger seemed to be ok, then roughly two weeks after the beginning of the affair i re.introuduced some fingery stuff (though not extremely intense) and the pain reappeared...
what could it be?