These are my hands. They are paradoxical because two of my biggest passions in life are playing keyboards (piano, organ) and playing basketball. While playing keyboards doesn't interfere with basketball, the reverse is not true. In the course of my BB career I have broken both little fingers (which I never had treated, hence their gnarled shape), and have sprained and/or dislocated all the others multiple times. I can't remove my wedding ring because my left finger is permanently swollen at the knuckle from repeated sprains. Once a guy swiped at a lose ball in my vicinity, dislocating my right index finger; it stuck out at a 90 degree angle towards my thumb at the second joint. I had to spend the rest of the day traveling around Utah to find someone to fix it. (Susie drove me, so it took the rest of her day, too.)
Last month the same thing happened to my right middle finger. A guy on the court said it would be better to get it re-set immediately before swelling set it, and that he had been studying physical therapy and was semi-qualified. So I let him do it. He did a great job. I was back swishing 25 foot jumpers within 5 minutes (kind of).
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I have an idea--only use your right hand for BB and your left hand for piano/organ playing. Then your hands would actually show their paradoxical-ness as one would grow ever more gnarled and the other would turn wimpy, soft, and white.
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