The symptoms of Hand Injuries vary depending on the type of injury, how the injury occurred (mechanism), depth, severity and location. Common symptoms of Hand Injuries include:
- Burns — Tenderness or complete numbness, deformity, discolouration, loss of tissue, change in texture of skin, redness, blistering, black areas of tissue
- Fractures and dislocations — Tenderness, deformity, swelling and discolouration, decreased range of motion, numbness, weakness, bleeding
- High pressure injuries — Pain, swelling, occasional skin discolouration
- Infections — Tenderness, localised warmth, redness, swelling, fever (rare in hand infections), deformity, decreased range of motion
- Lacerations — Tenderness (pain), bleeding, numbness, decreased range of motion (difficulty moving), weakness, pallor (pale or bloodless)
- Soft tissue (flesh) injuries and amputations — Tenderness, deformity (with or without tissue and bone loss), swelling and discolouration, bleeding, weakness, numbness