Despite what all the cool martial arts movies might imply — especially ones with some Ancient Master who is so advanced in his mystic-fu that he can turn aside attacks with a minimum of effort and movement — blocking a kick with your finger is not a recommended defensive move in karate. At least, not at my rank.<\/p>\n
Yet that is in fact what I did (unintentionally) while sparring at my nephews’ dojo over the holidays … and my left ring finger is still <\/em>hurting me, three weeks later. Not a constant pain or a “wow, look at the bone sticking out” sort of thing, but an uncomfortable strained reminder whenever I clench it. Further, the knuckle remains somewhat swollen, which means I can’t get my wedding ring on (or, if it were on, get it off again).<\/p>\n *sigh*<\/p>\n So, at what point do I actually go see a doctor about this, vs. wait for it to get better in my ever-advancing decrepitude?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite what all the cool martial arts movies might imply — especially ones with some Ancient Master who is so advanced in his mystic-fu that he can turn aside attacks…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-karate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13345,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/01\/16\/dont_pull_my_finger_part.html","url_meta":{"origin":13359,"position":0},"title":"(Don’t) pull my finger (Part 2)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 16-Jan-09 2:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Went in to see the doctor, a trauma primary care doc. 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