Thanks Gents,
I've taken off the straping now and am beginning to get my trigger finger working again, hurts like hell but its moving again, the swelling around the rest of the hand is going down slowly and my knuckles are almost visible again, well there is some shape appearing at the top and I can get the ring and little finger to touch the base of my thumb now
The wrist however, well look at it this way there won't be no swift ones flying off there for a while (remember the conversation during the voyage over the channel lol)
Mark, thanks a lot, I'll see how it goes first