Random wrist pain came back in my left hand on Monday sometime. Carrying crates while closing The Southfield earlier tonight has made it painful to even move my fingers. Not fun.
Anyone have any ideas on how to make the pain go away? Without drinking myself to oblivion / taking painkillers, that is. I want to deal with the cause, not the effect. Keep it warm? Keep it cool? Amputate? There's got to be something I can do...
(PS. I only just discovered that Google does that. Click the Southfield link above to see what I'm on about...)
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Workrave will be a brilliant little tool for this. It works really well.
Also.. get one of those forearms and grip strengther. It will help :-)
How would those grip strengtheners help? Exercising the right places? (Please excuse my ignorance!)
It will strength and stretch the muscles in the hand, wrist and forearms. If you think about it, you have kinda limited your hand and wrist to do other tasks like carrying the crates and stuff.
Sorry for the delay to this thread!
Also, instead of such a boring and gym-like thing as the grip strengthener, I've gotten meself a Powerball, and even though the marketing of it might seem a bit dodgy, friends (ie., fellow traceurs) have recommended it to me, and I do feel how it's creating resistance (= stress = strength) from the fingers and wrist and through the arms up to the shoulder (which also means that I have to focus on not tightening the neck, to avoid negative tension).
There are also some isometric exercises you might want to do be doing, but I'll come back to those later, if you want me to. :)
ps. I need a physical education and/or traceur/parkour userpic...
That depends. If the pain is relieved by massage, keep it warm. If the pain is made worse by massage, put ice on it.
It's some Chinese medicine thing.
I know my body really well (a combination of a life of odd pains and injuries and having been an elite athlete) so know my pains and how to treat them. I've always just known whether something needed a hot water bottle or an ice pack.
But then I read somewhere that in Chinese medicine if something is made better by massage (like a stiff muscle) you should put warm on it. If something is made worse by massage (like a broken bone) you should put ice on it. And I realised it made sense. That was how things worked, I'd just never really paid much attention to it before.
Of course, if the damage is really severe, the muscle should be rested, but it should be worked (gently) as soon as possible, to get the above effect going. ("Active recovery.")
I don't know when or why muscles should be cooled down. I'm not saying there isn't a time and reason for it, just that I don't know of it off-hand. Feel free to enlighten me though. :)
(For the record, this might be the one area I know stuff in, where I know next to none of the technical jargon in English. :x)