Is it adviced to take self defense classes if you suffer from an old injury?

English is not my first language, please forgive any mistakes I make.

I live in a student city (basically, a city where a university's located and its students greatly outnumber the "regular" people living there). Naturally, a lot of drunk students cross my path whenever I'm walking home after a late class or choir practice. This has made me feel incredibly unsafe as most of them start shouting things or approaching me, one even trying to grope me aggressively until someone pushed him off of me. Being 5'2" and on the brink of being underweight, my confidence is quite low if I have to defend myself.

Self defense classes have interested me since I was twelve and I got my first broken bones from being bullied. Sadly, you need to be an adult to follow self defense courses in my country (weird but okay), and I recently found that my university organizes them twice a year for a few weeks. I'd like to join them once all this has passed (my university is planning on staying online until at least January 2021, so it'll take quite some time). I was ready to enlist, when I realized something.

I have been bullied in the past and I have acquired quite some broken bones from that. All of them have healed, but there's one located in my finger that I'm not sure of. I'm afraid that I'll break it again if I have to defend myself. My doctor says it's healed, but I sometimes feel a little ghost pain in it so...

tldr: Do you guys think it would be safe to do self defense with a possibly slightly weaker bone in your ring finger? I understand that you usually push with your palms, but you guys are obviously the experts in this.

(Note: I'm trying to get my physical strenght on par by doing regular excercising. If you have any recommendations, feel free to share!)

Thank you for taking the time to answer!

Submitted May 23, 2020 at 05:56AM by Ceolach_Boghadair https://ift.tt/36pWsPB