Flappers

Ziad Shahin

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Hey Doc So today I ripped a major flapper on my ring finger.  It was a partial rip so the skin is still attached, however it was very deep and tore deep into my dermis, causing me to bleed through many a taping.  I'm looking for suggestions in care to accelerate the healing process on this thing. My care right now has consisted of cleaning my finger with cool water, then putting a healthy amount of neosporin inside the wound under the torn skin and around the injury, and then placing a bandaid over it.  I will be redoing the dressing every morning.  What else can I be doing or not doing here and what can I do to make sure the skin grows back strong so I don't have a weak point in my skin for the next few weeks/months?

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Jens Larssen

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Danile Olausson has written an article in swedish and he is actually as we speak translating it. We will present it the next week.

stefan warsink

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I tore one a few weeks back as well.. taped shut directly, then bouldered on.. at night, cleaned and dried thoroughly, kept uncovered during the night. well taped for the last day of climbing, and after cleaning and drying back home I removed as much of the loose skin as possible. don't cover up any more, except when climbing, which I only did one week later. skin is healing fast, once it's completely ok I'll sand the last hard parts off.. good luck recuperating!

Derek Bredl

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Very interesting injuries flappers ... the deeper ones are the worst. Also interesting in their treatment. I've traditionally always removed the "flapper" bit of skin myself; but I then also highly recommend the "advanced healing" type of bandaids, there is a soft spongy kind that you are meant to put on and try to keep/leave on for as long as you can (I guess it acts like the flapper bit of skin and promotes healing underneath). If you can manage 7 days or so, or simply replace with a new one whenever the old one comes off as soon as possible for the week, it works wonders, I can pretty much be back to new within 7-10 days (depth of the flapper dependant). My two cents.