Wrist pain
Wrist pain or open wrist is a type of syndrome that prevents the patient using their hand due to a painful wrist. The pain may be sharp, sometimes steadily increasing after trying to apply force. Typically pain is caused after exerting too strong a demand on the wrist, as is the case with weight lifters, athletes in general, or with any weight-bearing activity to the wrist.
Types[edit]
Common causes of chronic wrist pain include:[1][2]
- Scaphoid fracture nonunion (a break of the scaphoid bone)
- Thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) joint osteoarthritis (breakdown of joint cartilage)
- Scapholunate ligament instability (rupture of this ligament leads to wrist instability)
- Triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) (injury and degeneration)
- De quervain tenosynovitis (when two tendons that control movement of the thumb become constricted by their tendon sheath in the wrist)
- Extensor carpi ulnaris (ECU) tendinopathy (Triangular fibrocartilage)
- Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) (nerve compression of the median nerve in the wrist)
- Ganglion cyst (fluid-filled closed sac with a joint or tendon sheath in the wrist)
- Kienbock's disease (breakdown of the lunate bone in the wrist)
- Wrist fracture, wrist sprain
Treatment[edit]
After applying hot or cold pads in the first moments, if there is no inflammation, the use of a simple leather or neoprene wrist brace (or even a steel-reinforced one), is recommended in order to rest the wrist.[2]
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References[edit]
- ^ Hemmati S, Ponich B, Lafreniere AS, Genereux O, Rankin B, Elzinga K (January 2024). "Approach to chronic wrist pain in adults: Review of common pathologies for primary care practitioners". Canadian Family Physician Medecin De Famille Canadien. 70 (1): 16–23. doi:10.46747/cfp.700116. PMID 38262758.
- ^ a b Schenck RC (1999). Athletic training and sports medicine. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 346–. ISBN 978-0-89203-172-6. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
Bibliography[edit]
- "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet". National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
- "Symptoms". Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Mayo Clinic.