Ingrown fingernails from crimping

In recent months I am getting an ingrown-like finger nail injury on the side of my fingernails from crimping. Basically I am applying pressure to the first pad of my finger and it’s pushing the nail into the skin. This comes from crimping, doesn’t matter if it’s 8 letter grades below my limit, it happens within a few routes and takes over a week to heal. Annoying as hell and I need to figure out a way to heal these quicker or prevent them from happening every time I climb. Would almost rather have a pulley injury

Any advice?

I sometimes get these, though not to the extent that you describe. I found that aggressively moisturizing cuticles and side-nails was really important. I have a little zipper pocket on my chalk bag, and I keep a stick of Rhino split in there so I can re-moisturize immediately after climbing. If I get one of those splits, liquid bandage seems to speed along healing nicely. I also started trimming the thick skin right next to the nail, because it can get super thick and hard to keep moisturized and flexible, leading to more splits.

looks more like a hang nail(?)  do you get a tiny little sliver of cuticle-like material that pops up, and then you pull it (and it hurts like hell)?

I used to get that a little bit but this seems to be different.
I bet the solution would be similar though. I’ll try moisturizing

Chris- keep your nails trimmed short and wash hands and use moisturizer on them after you chalk up and climb.
I get the “cuticle” sticking out from the side of my nail - never ever- pull it out. That gets infected quickly.
Good luck. 

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Crimping: you’re doing it wrong 

maybe try open hand or half crimp instead?  I starting switching to these positions most of the time and after a few years now my open hand and half crimp is almost as good as my full crimp.