Why does it hurt when I turn and press my wrist?

In real life, wrist pain is very familiar to many people. Generally speaking, pain when the wrist is turned or pressed may be caused by damage to the soft tissue inside the wrist. Injury to the joints in the wrist area can also easily lead to pain symptoms. You can first relieve it by using cold compresses, and you can gently move your wrists at other times.

Wrist rotation and compression pain relief method

Wrist pain can be caused by two reasons: one is soft tissue contusion; the other is bone and joint injury.

You can do wrist exercises

The first step is to clench your fist and then loosen your fingers, and repeat this several times.

The second step is to make a fist with your hand straight down and rotate your wrist clockwise and counterclockwise. (Remember that your arms do not move when you turn, only your palm drives your wrist to turn)

Step three, relax and shake your hands. Step 4: Extend your right arm forward in front of your chest and make a fist with your palm facing downward. Grasp the right wrist with your left hand (keep the right arm still) and rotate your right hand clockwise and counterclockwise 5 times each. Then switch to the left hand.

Remember to turn slowly, clench your fists and turn hard, no matter how painful it is. And be sure to rotate your hands 360 degrees for this to be effective. Wrist exercises can make the hand and wrist joints more flexible and keep the wrists in a relaxed state.

The dangers of wrist pain

Numbness and thumb muscle weakness may develop into nerve damage, which can cause muscle atrophy in the hand. The problem lies in repeated typing on the keyboard or moving the mouse every day, which causes long-term, intensive, repeated and excessive activities of the wrist joints, leading to damage or compression of the peripheral nerves, blocking nerve conduction, and causing sensory and movement disorders in the palm. In addition, the elbows are often lower than the wrists, while the hands are raised high, the nerves and tendons are often compressed, the hands will begin to feel numb, the fingers will lose flexibility, and joint pain will often occur.

Mitigation methods

1. Try to avoid keeping your upper limbs in a fixed, mechanical and frequently moving working state for a long time. When using a mouse or typing, you should get up and move your limbs every hour, and do some movements to relax your fingers, such as clenching your fists and pinching your fingers.

2. When using a computer, the height of the keyboard and mouse on the computer desk should be lower than the height of the elbows when sitting. This will help reduce damage to the tendon sheath and other parts of the wrist when operating the computer.

3. When using the mouse, do not let your arm hang in the air to reduce the pressure on your wrist. When moving the mouse, do not use wrist strength but try to rely on arm strength to reduce the pressure on your wrist.

4. Do not hit the keyboard and mouse buttons too hard. It is better to use light and moderate force.

5. It is best to choose a mouse with a large curvature, a wide contact surface, and assisted dispersion.

6. When using the mouse, use the "mouse wrist pad" to pad your wrist.