Method 3 Glove

The surgical glove method consists of feeding a single finger of the glove under the ring on the patient's swollen finger. The glove, after it has been fed under the ring, is then pulled back over the top of ring, and is pulled towards the distal end of the finger.

Nevertheless, it is very difficult to feed the glove under the ring because the space between the ring and the finger is tight and requires compression of the tissues to feed the glove underneath. Due to the elastic properties of surgical gloves, there is a high probability for the glove to fail when undergoing immense tensile and compression forces.

This technique is also limited by arthritis since the enlarged knuckle can not be compressed.