Have i sprained my finger?

i was playing basketball and during one of those times where you don't know what your were doing, like when you lose control of the ball, but everyone mobs around it and you're in the middle.
i got out of it with a hurt finger. it was sort of stiff. ( cause if i moved it , it would hurt)
now, there is a bruise there.
so can everybody please tell me if it is sprained and how to heal it if it is?
please don't tell me to go to the doctor . the reason i am asking it here is so i don't have to go to the doctor if i can heal it myself. but, if you think i should go to the doctor just to make sure there isn't anything else wrong, then go ahead

i think you should go to the doctor just to make sure there isn't anything else wrong.

Leave it for a day or two, just take some asprin and keep it moving so it doesn't seize up, if after then it hasn't got any better (or if it gets any worse before that) you'll have to go to a doctor coz it could be a broken or chipped bone.

sounds like a bruise to me
you could check at the doctors just to be sure
if it is a bruise, it will heal pretty quickly

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