Sure, if you use your hands too much it will make them sore. For instance, if out of the blue you assemble a 200 piece doll house for your daughter that requires lots of hand tools you will probably get sore hands. Or, if you use a new piece of exercise equipment, or start a new hobby or sport like tennis or golf you increase your chances of hand pain. This kind of pain is just the body telling you you did too much.
The kind of hand or wrist pain I am describing usually goes away quick and there are no repercussions. If you want to speed up your recovery you can use ice or some simple stretches…or just rest. Unless, you really overdo it and/or already had some hand problems bubbling under the surface.
For example…if by day, you are sitting in front of a computer doing repetitive movements with the arm and hands, you may be developing a repetitive stress injury and did not even know it. Then, you take up golf and your arms and hands begin to get really sore and don’t seem to recover. This is the type of scenario we see frequently at our Back, Neck, and Wrist pain Center in Yorkville.
Or, hand pain, wrist pain, forearm pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness of grip, just seems to develop out of the blue for no apparent reason. This is also common and can be very frustrating to patients as we use our hands for everything and for the most part take the use of them for granted.
The other thing is, the true source of your hand pain may not even be the hands or wrists (carpal tunnel syndrome)…it may be the neck. That’s right…the nerves that innervate and control the shoulder, arm, and hands originate in the neck. Pressure on these nerves in the neck from misaligned vertebrae (vertebral subluxations), bulging or herniated cervical discs, face syndrome’s, or degenerative disc disease can also cause pain, numbness, tingling, or weakness in the hands.
I know this sounds complicated but it really isn’t. Not for a chiropractor that specializes in hand pain and related disorders. Not sure if I would go to the emergency room for this, or even to my family doctor…because they just don’t have the experience to know what to do.
Wrist splints and Motrin is the usual treatment. Meanwhile, there is no examination of the neck to check for nerve pressure or interference. In fact, there are even some hand surgeons that don’t check the neck. I can’t tell you how many carpal tunnel surgeries I have seen in my 6 year career that were not necessary.
Anyway, if you have hand pain and it comes on gradually out of the blue, or you overdo it and the hand pain persists, you should probably see a chiropractor…not any chiropractor, but one that specializes in hand pain.
To schedule an appointment for hand pain treatment in Yorkville call 630-553-7737.
