Your experiences with broken hands?

[EzekielFromMount]

Anyone had these type of injuries? How was the recovery?

 

[shincheckin]

not bad, took like 6 months or so, fractured my scaphoid.

 

[ironkhan57]

I've never had a broken hand. But my brother has.

He owed me a lot of gas money so I kept telling him to give it to me. He refused thinking that I "work" for him and that he's paying me for driving him around when he didn't. So I came in his room and told him give my money.

He refused again so I attacked him, mounted him and asked him are you going to give me my money. He said no. So than I started punching him in the head he covered up and than i started punching his hand. And apparently I hurt it real bad after 3 punches and he said alright fine.

My mom took him to the doctors to get an X Ray and check up. But she wasn't mad because he owed me that money. So when I went to work at my gas station there was a doctor who came whose rich I might add. I told him I broke my brothers hand and he asked why? So I told him he owed me money and he's laughed and said he should've paid up lol.

Anyways long story short his hand had a fracture and it healed in 3 weeks from what I remember. A broken hand might take a month or so (not a doctor I'm just making an educated guess.)

 

[AlanGregson]

I've never had a broken hand. But my brother has.

He owed me a lot of gas money so I kept telling him to give it to me. He refused thinking that I "work" for him and that he's paying me for driving him around when he didn't. So I came in his room and told him give my money.

He refused again so I attacked him, mounted him and asked him are you going to give me my money. He said no. So than I started punching him in the head he covered up and than i started punching his hand. And apparently I hurt it real bad after 3 punches and he said alright fine.

My mom took him to the doctors to get an X Ray and check up. But she wasn't mad because he owed me that money. So when I went to work at my gas station there was a doctor who came whose rich I might add. I told him I broke my brothers hand and he asked why? So I told him he owed me money and he's laughed and said he should've paid up lol.

Anyways long story short his hand had a fracture and it healed in 3 weeks from what I remember. A broken hand might take a month or so (not a doctor I'm just making an educated guess.)

Damn.... Full mount and you didn't drop any elbows. Fuck outta here casual.

 

[AlanGregson]

Broke my middle knuckle in a street fight a few years ago. I still have occasional pain if use my hand a lot, my knuckle is kinda pushed in compared to my other hand. I've had a lot of injuries but having a broken knuckle in a badly positioned cast almost made me cry. Fucken sucked would not do again 1/10 IGN.

 

[genecop]

Depends...

 

[sweetviolenturg]

No broken bones in my hands at all. And, that's after 40 fights which included amateur & professional boxing matches as well as a pro kickboxing bout. Oh, plus there were about 8 fights outside the ring. To what do I owe this good fortune?
Well, the fact that before I began boxing as a teen I studied Isshin Ryu Karate for a little over two years & it had an old school instructor who insisted upon his students using strengthening & conditioning exercises & techniques for our hands. Things that I continued to do even after I switched to Tae Kwon Do for a couple of years before finally switching to boxing at 17.
It's those things that I firmly believe helped me to avoid breaking a hand at least once in my life like so many of my friends, stablemates & contemporaries. I also believe that those techniques helped me with my punching power. Something that the late HOF trainer Emmanuel Steward agreed with me about when I worked with him years later. He, in fact, had all his fighters do exercises to develop their hand strength & forearms from the time that they were amateurs & he produced some of the biggest punchers in the sport including, of course, Thomas Hearns & Michael Moorer.
Of course, now, four decades after I began all that training my hands are sore as hell in the cold weather due to calcium deposits on the knuckles ( thank God I'm moving to Arizona soon ) but I wouldn't change a thing. In fact, I recommend that sort of training to all fighters.

 

[ironkhan57]

Damn.... Full mount and you didn't drop any elbows. Fuck outta here casual.

Elbows were too easy. I wanted to savor the moment.

 

[RabbitPunch36]

No broken bones in my hands at all. And, that's after 40 fights which included amateur & professional boxing matches as well as a pro kickboxing bout. Oh, plus there were about 8 fights outside the ring. To what do I owe this good fortune?
Well, the fact that before I began boxing as a teen I studied Isshin Ryu Karate for a little over two years & it had an old school instructor who insisted upon his students using strengthening & conditioning exercises & techniques for our hands. Things that I continued to do even after I switched to Tae Kwon Do for a couple of years before finally switching to boxing at 17.
It's those things that I firmly believe helped me to avoid breaking a hand at least once in my life like so many of my friends, stablemates & contemporaries. I also believe that those techniques helped me with my punching power. Something that the late HOF trainer Emmanuel Steward agreed with me about when I worked with him years later. He, in fact, had all his fighters do exercises to develop their hand strength & forearms from the time that they were amateurs & he produced some of the biggest punchers in the sport including, of course, Thomas Hearns & Michael Moorer.
Of course, now, four decades after I began all that training my hands are sore as hell in the cold weather due to calcium deposits on the knuckles ( thank God I'm moving to Arizona soon ) but I wouldn't change a thing. In fact, I recommend that sort of training to all fighters.

You should make post about this or a youtube video with your insights. You have a lot of good insights in martial arts in general and good stories about boxing. I would definitely subscribe.

 

[sweetviolenturg]

You should make post about this or a youtube video with your insights. You have a lot of good insights in martial arts in general and good stories about boxing. I would definitely subscribe.

Thanks, man. I appreciate you saying so. Maybe one of these days I will.
There are no real secret techniques though. Just things that would toughen my fists & increase my hand/wrist/forearm strength. But, gradually so as not to go too hard too early & cause a break or other sort of injury.
For instance, some of what I did was a lot of five fingers & fist push-ups, dumbbell curls with my wrists, a lot of time spent on the makiwara board, punching & gripping buckets full of sand & later, once they came out, I loved to work at least three rounds a day on the water-filled heavy bags with no gloves or hand wraps on ( after I'd already done all my work on the other heavy bags with gloves & wraps on to work on power ).

 

[RabbitPunch36]

Thanks, man. I appreciate you saying so. Maybe one of these days I will.
There are no real secret techniques though. Just things that would toughen my fists & increase my hand/wrist/forearm strength. But, gradually so as not to go too hard too early & cause a break or other sort of injury.
For instance, some of what I did was a lot of five fingers & fist push-ups, dumbbell curls with my wrists, a lot of time spent on the makiwara board, punching & gripping buckets full of sand & later, once they came out, I loved to work at least three rounds a day on the water-filled heavy bags with no gloves or hand wraps on ( after I'd already done all my work on the other heavy bags with gloves & wraps on to work on power ).

Bare with me for a second, I don't know if you seen Sinisters fist tutorial or not but he advocates punching with the biggest 2 knuckles and rotating your fist before you throw to land the knuckles. With that advice I have been making a fist like that and have been doing knuckle pushups to develope the calcium deposits in those biggest two knuckles. In your experience with Karate do you think it would be optimal to priortize the strengthening of the first 2 knuckles if you don't intend to hit with anything except those to protect againest boxers fractures and wrist injuries?

Heres the video



and heres the thread for it

https://forums.sherdog.com/threads/a-sinister-fist-tutorial.2236285/

 

[sweetviolenturg]

I see what he's saying but it's alien to me because I've always been trained to punch with all four knuckles so as to distribute the power over the entirety of the fist's surface.

 

[YoungCashMoney]

4 broken hands here, recovery is 3-6months for 100% use, my boxers fracture in my right hand still looks noticably disfigures and my knuckle is pushed about a centimeter back.


Nothing compared to the ligament issues, TFCC tears in both my wrists, those took a year recovery months upon months of physical therapy and didn’t feel 100% pretty much ever but about 99% after 2-3 years

Have also broken scaphoid bone, very long recovery time on that one

 

[AtlSteel]

Little finger metacarpal from hook to a hip bone. Arm cast for I think a month. Long time ago.

 

[William Huggins]

I see what he's saying but it's alien to me because I've always been trained to punch with all four knuckles so as to distribute the power over the entirety of the fist's surface.

The way @Sinister shows how to form a fist and throw punch is the same way I was shown as a child, never had any hand issues from throwing like this.

On that point it has become more rare by the day to actually find gyms that teach the very basic principles.

 

[SandisLL]

lot of five fingers & fist push-ups, dumbbell curls with my wrists,

Yes and plenty of different pushups exercises, including different variations of on fingers pushups are used in old Schools training for grappling arts. This especially is valuable if grappling with wirsts locks is allowed and invaluable necessity if one wish to grapple with small joints locks.
There's also plenty of static exercises to help develop stronger force for grab and grip strength, especially static strength after grip is established.

advocates punching with the biggest 2 knuckles and rotating your fist before you throw to land the knuckles

I had many different approaches from trainers. Some with biggest 2 knuckles and with rotation or without depending form obstacles and some advocated that better is with 4 knuckles.

knuckle pushups to develope the calcium deposits in those biggest two knuckles

Reasons to do knuckle push ups are more than just knuckles condtioning.
Some heavily advocates that knuckle/ fingers push ups strengtens forearms joints and helps to resist against harash grappling attack with fingers and/ or wirsts locks and there…. i know guys who never were karatekas, they does knuckle push ups, some does them on soft surface like mat but thinner than mat because their reasons is more about wirsts joints and tendons, other forearm's parts conditioning.
These knuckle push ups also to some extent helps automatize proper angle for forearms joints when punching.

Thanks, man. I appreciate you saying so. Maybe one of these days I will.
There are no real secret techniques though. Just things that would toughen my fists & increase my hand/wrist/forearm strength. But, gradually so as not to go too hard too early & cause a break or other sort of injury.

If you create your webpage or Yt channel, I might point link to it when asked abot contidioning, cos I'm not so comfortable with english to write good articles in english.
You might add also about other exercises for conditioning, fitness etc, because they are not so plenty in Yt than videos about " how to beat ".

 

[Adnan Adil]

I see what he's saying but it's alien to me because I've always been trained to punch with all four knuckles so as to distribute the power over the entirety of the fist's surface.

And how is possible to land with all of the knuckles simultaneously, they are not at the same height, so you are going to land with some before the others.