is my hang gonna be worse off ?

Question

so i fell about a month an a half ago and tore a ligament in my hand and had to have it repaired. Right now i have a cast on with 2 pins keeping it together. I play guitar and drums and have been doing so since the surgery. As of about the last week or 2 my hand has been in SO much pain but not enough to like cry or anything. Kind of like a pressure pain. so i want to know if you may think something is wrong? could a pin have slipped ? could i be stressing something to much ? im really scared to get my cast off cause i think my hand will be worse off.

Answer 1

As a fellow drummer, I know that if you're doing anything worth anything on the drums, you're going to be giving your hand quite a workout (how else are you going to get those 32nd notes out?). This is definitely NOT a good thing if you have an injury in your hand that needs to heal. It will aggravate the injury, and it could make things worse. The best thing to do would be to use your hand only when it is essential, such as if you're writing on paper or typing. Even those things are questionable activities if you keep them up for too long, I would think.

Drumming takes a lot more energy than people give it credit, and I have the forearms to prove it. Be careful. It would also be a very good idea to talk to your doctor about it, but I'm pretty sure he will tell you the same thing I did.

Answer 2

Fellow guitar player - the best book on muscles, pain and referred pain I have run across is The Trigger Point Therapy Workbook by Davies. Go right to the section that deals with hands to put things in perspective.
Wishing you much more music

Answer 3

See your doctor and tell him your concerns. Pins inside bones never feel quite right, it's not a normal thing. Talk to your doctor.

Answer 4

Well, the ligament had to set, so if you tore it, it will be much harder to fully recover.