I have posted on here before that this year was a little rough for my dominant hand. I tripped over my dog and landed awkwardly. I thought I just jammed my pinky and continued life as normal. Turns out I had actually fractured the bone at the last joint, resulting in a mallet finger injury. This took two surgeries to fix and almost 4 months of wearing a splint 24-7. I never thought that a pinky injury would cause such a headache. I have barely used my right hand, besides at work to write or type, and am now just getting into occupational therapy. The injury happened in September and I had my first surgery beginning of October
This injury led to a lot of changes in my life, mostly diet, working out, and shooting. For diet, I quit drinking anything but water and coffee. I was a big drinker and quiting led to me dropping twenty pounds and I focused on just being healthy. I feel absolutely amazing, healthiest I've been in a long time. I couldn't lift anything with my right hand so I strictly focused on cardio, legs, and abs. This was a nice break from lifting to be honest, I have lifted weights for 15 years and taking part of the year to do different stuff or just relax was wonderful. Shooting, simply fell to the way side. I carried a gun still, left handed, and understood my limitations. I dry fired and kept up my competency but didn't really push anything..
Now that I am in occupational therapy and doing rehab, I am able to start shooting and lifting. Weight lifting is going well, no pain but my right hand is really weak. On the grip test I did my left hand scored a 87 and my right a 43, so lots of work to do. Working with the therapy putty and doing the exercises prescribed has been very productive. As far as shooting, my OT is a shooter and she said I will most likely need to find the most ergonomic grip I can to take stress off the joint of my pinky. Glocks, as of right now, are extremely uncomfortable in dry fire. So that led me to the p30, and I'm evaluating it. So far there is a lot less irritation with the spider man grip, tucks the pinky right in.
Such a weird/small injury that threw a huge wrench in my day to day hobbies and life. Anyone else have something similar?