What do you do to prevent wrist-pain? (CTS)

[wuliheron]

Your palm hurting is probably a sign of carpel tunnel which is often accompanied by tendinitis. As your wrist hurts more you tighten the muscles in your arm to compensate causing tendinitis. I'd take 600 mg of ibuprofen and see a doctor as soon as possible.

 

[meob]

carpal tunnel syndrome has nothing to do with muscle strength or blood flow in the wrist. it's caused from pressure on the median nerve. a padded mouse pad generally won't help and may make it worse since the weight of your arm is resting on your wrist near your carpal tunnel. like others have said keep your wrist straight and get a chair with an arm rest level with your mouse. rest the majority of your arm on the chair to keep the pressure away from your wrist.

 

[GoStumpy]

Ok, so I'm doing good having my entire forearm on the desk (or on a slightly elevated surface) so that there's no pressure on my wrist...

I think my chair was far too low causing a wierd angle on my arm making it hurt, now I just need to take a week off to help it...

 

[MustangSVT]

adjust the height of chair and desk.

even few cm would make difference.

use a silicon pad.

 

[lozina]

 

[JTsyo]

What I did at college is pull out my drawer and put a binder on it. This provided a rest for my elbow. At work now, I adjust the arm rest to be the same height as the desk.

 

[five_seven]

First thing I'm going to do is more wrist-oriented exercises... curl my wrist with weights and see if that helps...

This for me.

My wrist pain comes NOT in my mouse hand, but in the left hand from resting on the keyboard doing the WASD work. To explain my specific problem, place your hand and forearm flat on a desk with your hand perfectly inline with your forearm. Now rotate your hand to the left so it creates an angle on the left side of the wrist. Exactly in that spot there is where I feel pain every once in a while.

I've developed it only recently with BF3 while doing some really intense game sessions (i.e. having a death grip on everything while getting to 50 kills in SQDM). I've got one of those cheap $14 wrist curl bars from Wal-Mart and a 5 lb weight plate and I do a couple sets of regular and reverse wrist curls every other day and the pain subsides.

I have a MS Natural keyboard so the keys are split, but for some reason I tend to still naturally rotate my wrist on it.

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

wrist pad

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Have had CTS for about 10 years.

I spoke to a massage therapist person & they suggested best short term without surgery & shit is to just stretch & gently massage the area.
Most times this helps ease it, but have to do it regularly as well, whether or not you're at the computer.

I usually try to rest my entire arm on a flat surface to take pressure off.

Sometimes it's so unbearable I can't stand playing many games or using the computer altogether.

Usually ball mouses or wireless mouses that make me work harder & correct movements are the worst on my CTS.

 

[Alamat]

Ergonomics is the key. Wrist pads, elbow rest on better chairs help a lot. Also, taking regular breaks will also alleviate these. There are actual exercises such as these that I actually give to patients. You can also try using a night splint while gaming if possible but usually just when sleeping would do fine.

 

[watek]

Haha I love the grippers! After a long BF3 session these come useful.

 

[astrosfan315]

This for me.

My wrist pain comes NOT in my mouse hand, but in the left hand from resting on the keyboard doing the WASD work. To explain my specific problem, place your hand and forearm flat on a desk with your hand perfectly inline with your forearm. Now rotate your hand to the left so it creates an angle on the left side of the wrist. Exactly in that spot there is where I feel pain every once in a while.

I've developed it only recently with BF3 while doing some really intense game sessions (i.e. having a death grip on everything while getting to 50 kills in SQDM). I've got one of those cheap $14 wrist curl bars from Wal-Mart and a 5 lb weight plate and I do a couple sets of regular and reverse wrist curls every other day and the pain subsides.

I have a MS Natural keyboard so the keys are split, but for some reason I tend to still naturally rotate my wrist on it.

I hear you there. Of late most of my pain comes now in my left hand, specifically my little finger from holding the ctrl key for sprinting. (can't stand default shift key sprint). But I also had surgery on that finger after a nasty fracture mtn biking in college. That was about 20 yrs ago, so just about on time for some post traumatic arthritis to start settling in.