There is no other way to tell if the hand is broken or not.

How to tell if your hand is broken from punching a wall. Pain especially point tenderness on the bone swelling loss of function and severe pain with attempted function are all signs of fracture. A cast or splint on your hand wrist and lower arm will prevent movement while your hand heals. An X-ray is required to diagnose a broken hand.

However if you feel the finger seems unstable and that you did impart some force on the hand via punching the wall there is a possibility that there could be injury to that knuckle joint or bones of the finger causing swelling and pain. However other wrist injury symptoms are common for both fractures and sprains. The moment you break your knuckle the blood will start flowing towards the area of the fracture causing your hand to get hot.

There are a few telltale symptoms to detect a wrist fracture. First metacarpal base fracture can be caused due to punching a hard object such as a wall or due to fall directly on to a thumb. Take the temperature of your hand.

When you hit things using your knuckles they break nearly everytime this makes them stronger. And there are certain parts of the wrist that become fractured the back the front one of the particular bones. An x-ray may be used to find a fracture or other problem.

In general broken hand symptoms include. A broken hand can exhibit many symptoms depending on the severity of the break. Tenderness or sore to touch.

Check the temperature in your injured hand and then your other hand. A boxers fracture is the break of the 5th metacarpal bones of the hand near the knuckle. Difficulty making a fist.