Keep Your Hands To Yourself! - How You Can Avoid Hand Surgery By Avoiding Hand Injuries

Your hands are important

Your hands are important. You may not ever really appreciate how much you need them until you need surgery. Once your most important appendage gets mangled, smashed, broken, twisted or chewed up so that you can't eat, write or go to the bathroom so easily, you'll understand. That's why we need to take care of them. Their health is essential to everyday life, and keeping an eye out for things that could damage them is the best way to avoid surgery. Recovering from hand surgery can take lots of time and cost lots of money.

The biggest threat to your hands at home is your power tools. The garage is a place where many an appendage has wandered to the wrong place, and its owner has spent the next few weeks in a splint unable to finish their project.

Always use power tools safely, and keep your mind on your work. Hand surgery specialists generally agree that daydreaming and lack of concentration are the biggest problem. Keep your mind on your work, watch this appendage at all times and take breaks when you get tired.

Heavy Furniture and Pinch Points: Not as common but just as deadly is the moving of heavy objects. When you're moving furniture or cabinets around in the house, your hands are in constant danger. A hand can easily be smashed between or under something heavy. These danger zones are called "pinch points," and they do more than just pinch. They're more like "bone crushing points."

Safe handling of heavy objects will help keep you from needing hand operation. Always watch out for narrow places at the sides or undersides of heavy things, and don't let your hands get into them.

Arm Mangling at Work: Although the home poses the most common dangers, most serious injuries occur in the workplace. It is usually machines that do the damage. They're there to make our jobs faster and more efficient, but beware-some of them bite!

The most common appendage crippling industry is metalworking, followed by manufacturing and the food industry. But just because you work in an office, don't start feeling like you're totally safe. A file cabinet could be lurking somewhere waiting to take a chomp out of you.

The best prevention is to make sure your company follows safe practices to minimize industry. Even a few simple signs here and there that say "Watch Hands" can help. Hand surgery is effective in treating all manner of injuries, but it is neither fun nor cheap. Prevent injuries by being safe, and always be careful.

by: Abigail Aaronson

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