April 2, 2018 - Wrist Pain 101

🤚UNDERSTAND WRIST PAIN 💥 
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◼️The wrist is a joint where pain is notorious to linger. The wrist is the flexible link ⛓between the hand and the forearm. Whenever you tradeoff for mobility, stability becomes a problem. This is why we see so much wrist pain in these activities:
🔻Weight-Lifting
🔻Gymnastics
🔻Hockey
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◼️Believe it or not, there are few tendons that actually attach to the wrist. So ligaments are the main supporters of the joint. When the wrist is injured, typical muscle-based rehab 💪 isn’t always effective like in the knee. You also have the problem where the wrist flexors ↪️ are far more dominant than the extensors ↩️ which further complicates recovery.
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❇️You will commonly see your wrist sprain dismissed as a ‘simple sprain’ 😒 But there are varying levels of instability that can happen. Personally, I had wrist pain that lasted for months, and eventually a gradual program of wrist loading, and confidence was all I needed