numbness

[Boxer342]

I crushed my pinky finger in a ping pong table a few weeks back and I cannot fell it, it is just numb... Will I ever get the feeling back in my finger?

[fo3nix]

have you seen a doctor?

if I had no feeling in my feeling after a few weeks, I'd go see a doctor...

[Scylax]

It sounds like nerve-axon damage...V. common. If so, sensation will return, but oh, so slowly.

[Peter Pedant]

I agree c Scylax.

It is either a nerve damage called axonotmesis or neurotmesis. Probably the first. In which case the axons grow back along the undisrupted nerve sheaths.

Once they get going it is around 1 mm a day, I seem to think. If it is long nerve they have to grow down, then the place the growing point has reached, tingles when it is tapped = tinel's sign

go and see your local handy GP

[Scylax]

A 5* answer, Peter.   Now that's what I call an answer.  Magic.  Patently, my physiology ain't what it used to be, but it is coming back in a rush, together with lots of associated material.  It's called 'redintegration', I believe ?  You've made my day.....