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Wrist Pain 14-Mar-2006 At 3:48:55 PM oweng

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Hi Erica,

Whilst I cant offer any specific advice, I am having similar issues, so some of my findings might be of interest.

Ive had wrist problems for the last 6 months, with a tendonitis like pain on the little finger side of both wrists. This was generally only noticable when warming up, and was really not to much of an issue for climbing (only pain occured when trying to do hand/fist jams straight of the deck). The main pain occured batting playing cricket.

This gradually got worse, until playing cricket I landed awkwardly on my right wrist, and hurt it very badly. Couldnt tie my shoes for a week, and only now (5 weeks) later do I seem to have most of the strength back in the wrist. The right wrist itself seems to be recovering well (although shaking hands with people is still a no-no as squeezing hurts), but interestingly the left wrist is now quite painful, as my increased use of it for all things has made it flare up.

My hand physio diagnosed TPCC problems, and I have been taking non steroidal anti inflamitries, rubbing in voltarin ointment, having ultrasound treatment and taping the wrists.

Probably the most useful thisng has been the taping, which seemed to provide a lot of support, particularly in the right wrist that had the traumatic damage. My hand physio has me taping tightly a 'half wristband' on the little finger side of each wrist (imagine tape starting in the middle of where your watch face would sit and heading around your wrist to finish where the hinge on your watchband would be). Ive had the tape on pretty much all the time, this seemed to take a bit of the pressure of the damaged areas.

Your problems sound much more serious than mine, im hoping that stopping repeditive cricket training doing big drives facing bowling machines at 80 miles an hour will get rid of the cause of my problems, and leave me with just a plausible excuse for not attempting any hand cracks. Good luck.