You can generate a lot of pressure with your fingers and hands. The problem is some bones are just too big to rely on your fingers for. Performing Lateral Synovial Joint Loading on your fingers and toes takes a lot of time but if you want to get longer fingers and toes this is the way to do it. What's interesting about the fingers and toes is that the last bone at the very end of each of these mini-appendages is a long bone but the end is completely covered by periosteum? I think this may be the mechanism as to why
instrument players can get longer fingers. All the methods for increasing short bone length are available to this kind of long bone. Thus, repetitive impact forces can increase periosteal width and increase osteoblast bone deposition below the periosteum. There's not any studies on this and it would be hard to find good, anecdotal reports of instrument players only growing the tips of their fingers but I think this is a good explanation.
The three parts of your non-thumb fingers. Replace the close hanger used with your fingers to perform this. I'd say 30seconds to a minute is a good duration. I am not doing this yet because it obviously takes a long time. I am focusing on the legs right now.
Only two bones in the thumb. Remember use your fingers to pinch not the clotheshanger.
Toes and Big toe same thing.
