Replied by Isabelle (Garden Grove, Ca) on 06/23/2010
hello i am sorry that you are in pain. here is the technique i use since it was given to me by the elderly mother of a friend, when i was 16 years old, more than 50 years ago. i used it every time i need it, several times a year because i do a lot of things with my hands without being careful and it starts an infection, so as soon as i become aware of the pain i take a rubber band and i put it around the painful finger. it must be enough tight so that it slows down the circulation a bit (really just a bit NOT to the extend that the finger become swollen from it, just before that) and i leave it until its healed, generally a few days. i check by pressing on the area and if i still feel the slightest pain i leave it another day and so on until i don't feel any pain at all then, i take the rubber band off. the time vary from a couple of days to a couple of weeks: it all depend on how early i put the rubber band on. i do not know WHY it works but it does each time. (if i don't have a rubber band exactly the right size i cut it and make a knot or go around 2 times the importance is to slow down the circulation just a BIT and not to much). hoping that it will help as it is helping me. PEACE!Replied by Isabelle (Garden Grove, Ca Usa) on 06/23/2010
i apologize, i was not enough precise as where on the finger you put the rubber band; it has to look like you wear a ring, the closest to your palm. PEACE
