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If you use your hands in a repetitive fashion at work or at play and notice your hands and wrists are feeling achey and fatigued, it’s partly because the muscles in your hand are out of balance. Usage of the hands is predominantly a flexion action, where the flexor muscles of the arm contract to [...]
Continue Reading →If your job, hobby, or recreational activities involve repetitive movement patterns you may develop a repetitive strain injury, or RSI. Also known as overuse injuries, cumulative trauma disorders, and musculoskeletal disorders these types of conditions are characterized by pain, inflammation, swelling, and reduced joint movement. Some of the more well-know causes of RSIs include: typing/data [...]
Continue Reading →Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition where one of the major nerves of the arm gets compressed in the wrist. It can lead to pain, numbness, and tingling in the hands. Advanced symptoms are muscle weakness in the hands, muscle atrophy (shrinking), especially of the thumb pad; and loss of motor coordination in fine dexterity [...]
Continue Reading →Wrist pain from overuse affects over 50% of people whose job requires frequent typing on a computer keyboard. However, any job or activity that requires repetitious finger movement is capable of causing this type of wrist pain. The leading culprit is tedonitis, or tendinitis — inflammation of the wrist tendons; more precisely the flexor digitorum [...]
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