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I'm hoping someone can help me to identify my finger injury. A little background prior, I've been climbing for three months now, and I sent my first 5.11a clean the other day. I've done a few 5.11b and cs, but despite getting through all of the moves, I've not made it up clean yet. It feels as though I'm not strong enough which I'm chalking up to my technique not being good enough as I'm decently strong. I've also been working on bouldering, and I've sent a V5 (I'm 90% sure it was incorrectly rated), but I mainly stick to the V4 range. Now that my background had become an essay, a month ago I believe I pulled something in my ring finger. I want to just say it was my A2; however, I feel no pain when I push on the area (I can push very hard until it just hurts because I'm pushing too hard). I feel pain/stress on the pulled area when my finger is slightly curved and force is applied straight out on the pad of my finger. I try to climb primarily with open crimps; though I likely end up with quite a few half crimps. Before I knew how serious a tendon injury could be (didn't have all of these wonderful reddit resources a month ago), I just kept climbing on it. I've avoided holds that are two finger pockets or just used my index and middle fingers. I also just started trying to do pull-ups on slats (not really sure what to call them), on a hangboard, that are about 3/4 of a pad (I've been training with burnout sessions after climbing for a while doing pull-ups on a hangboard with different holds). I can do them without issue other than strength failing eventually. Ironically, my finger is starting to feel better now. It hadn't changed in how it felt under stress the whole time after the injury. To summarize: what may I have pulled and is the training possibly making the other muscles stronger and helping recovery?

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