Is this a valid way to deal with bumps on the hand?

sounds completely implausible to me…but then i’m not a doctor…
but sounds rather clever too!!

It works,it is only a fluid sac.
Hitting it busts the sac.Polip.

it’s an old wive’s tail….generally, one only tries it once…LOL

if the bump were the result of bone scar tissue or a broken bone that did not heal right, you would only cause further damage

as already pointed out, if it’s just swelling from fluid, of course it went down….it doesn’t mean the injury is cured, just spread out.

ps – the old wive’s tail is:

hit it with the BIBLE….not just any book…LOL

bibble babble

I actually saw that on tv. It was some type of luqid bubble/bump and they took a book and wacked the guys hand and the bump was gone. But i am pretty sure that it could cause other issues.

It might have been a calcium deposit—or any number of things. It wouldn’t be a bad idea to ask a doctor about it.

My son was just treated for one of these bumps, a ganglion cyst. It’s a fluid-filled sack with a pretty tough casing. The orthopedic surgeon actually raised the possibility of the “book” treatment, but my son opted to have the doctor rupture the cyst by injection instead. The book approach is perfectly valid it seems.

If your bump happens to be a ganglion cyst or some other fluid-filled structure, sure, you can hit it with a book. The outer coating is pretty tough but that could rupture it, allowing the fluid to flow out and be reabsorbed by the body. Or it won’t rupture it and you will end up with a bump plus a bruise.

However if it is a hematoma it could make it get larger (and it would hurt). If it is a wart or a mole, nothing would happen at all. Same with a sebaceous cyst, or with a cancerous cyst.

Before you whack a bump on any part of your body with a book, you should check with the doctor to find out what type of bump it is.