Son has pain and inflammation in his left hand (he's righty) between his wrist and pinky he says occurred swinging at a pitch. Just happened, have not been to Dr for x-ray yet, just wondering (hoping) someone else has experienced this and it's just minor.

Sounds like a broken hamate bone which is very common. If so its usually removed and your son will be back in 4-6 weeks on average.

Thanks for the reply. Seems like I have heard of MLB players having that injury. Never a good time to miss 6 weeks, but we're right in the middle of our summer season and going to the World Wood bat next week.

I would get the Xray asap then. It could be broken...it could be nothing. Good luck.

My son is suffering from the same kind of thing, except he's a lefty and its his right hand. He's been through X-ray, MRI and diagnosis.

The verdict was ECU tendon instability. Most commonly diagnosed in golfers and tennis players, but not unheard of in baseball players.

We're in a long, long wait period where all he's done is pitch. The original injury was in March and persisted through HS season in mid-May. We got an x-ray (for the hamate bone) in mid-May and it was clear. By the time we got in to the orthopedic surgeon, it was late May, MRI in early June, diagnosis in mid June.

He's resting until August 4th to see if it recovers on its own. He's going through some light physical therapy in the meantime. If it looks good next time, he'll start swinging with a t-ball bat and work up from there.

If not, he'll probably have surgery and try and recover as quickly as possible before the spring HS season.

Anyone else have experience with this kind of injury?

hook of hamate, son had same thing get it surgically corrected an easy procdure and recovery