Your finger can break when a fast-moving object hits your hand such as a baseball.
Can you break your finger by punching someone. Depends on how hard you hit and where your punching is connecting. In order to achieve this you need to slightly tilt your wrist down which actually strengthens your punch as well. When punching you should clench your fist with you thumb over the top of middle part of your index finger so as not to break your thumb.
Your hand may have swollen too large or it may simply be too painful for you to move your fingers if your knuckle is broken. But in real life hauling off and clocking someone is not only a great way to break your hand but in the majority of cases illegal. The finger area could have just literally gotten too much beating over a period of time and because you continue to inflict pressure upon it it cant heal fully.
You can minimize your chances of breaking your hand by using palm strikes instead of punches. One of the fractures is when you break the 4th or 5th metacarpal - the bone in your hand between your wrist and ring or pinky finger. Youll either miss or commonly punch wrong and hit the jaw and break your hand.
Broken fingers usually diagnosed with an X-ray. Other causes can be from trying to break a fall with your hand having your hand crushed in an accident violent twisting of the hand or finger or from contact during sports. If you can make a fist and your knuckle is broken your injured finger may not align properly with the rest of your fingers.
70 of these occur in people 11 to 45 years old. Without you hit the bag at an angle thats dangerous to these bones -- so dangerous that a particular kind of hand fracture is called a boxers break If you feel sharp pain in. These symptoms include a bruising or swelling of the finger pad.
In that case like you said it would help you cut people and maybe give a little more impact tiny amount it the one little spot where it hits but it can break your finger really easily. Thats how they got the name the Boxers Fracture which is most commonly a fracture of the 5th metacarpal your pinky finger. Punching a heavy bag means putting the entire force of your body behind a strike delivered through the small bones of your hands and fingers.