People experiencing wrist pain often turn to chiropractic care for help. Read on to learn more.

The wrist is complex and performs complex movements.  Additionally, nerves, muscles, bones, and other tissues not only of the wrist itself but of the fingers, hand, forearm, elbow, upper arm, and spine can also be involved in wrist pain, so it can be manifested in many ways.

Wrist Pain Causes

Wrist pain can be caused by any of a number of different reasons. It can be caused by normal wear and tear, by overuse, by injury, or through the natural aging processes, or a systemic disease process to name a few of the more common causes. Wrist pain caused by any reason should get an accurate diagnosis and can benefit greatly from medical attention by a qualified healthcare provider. Here are some examples of the causes of wrist pain:

Peripheral Nerve Entrapments

Known as a pinched nerve, this is when a nerve becomes literally impinged or entrapped by the surrounding tissue, be that bone, muscle, tendon, or cartilage.

Pronator Syndrome

A peripheral entrapment neuropathy that occurs when the median nerve of the arm becomes compressed between muscles of the forearm. Prolonged gripping, twisting, and pronation, as in working with construction equipment, can lead to this condition.

Radial Tunnel Syndrome

When the radial nerve becomes compressed in a canal in the elbow called the radial tunnel. Symptoms of this condition are often mistaken for tennis elbow.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

When pressure is put on the median nerve, it can cause pain and numbness or tingling sensation in the thumb and the closest next two and one-half fingers.

Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

When pressure is put on the ulnar nerve of the hand, it can cause the ring finger and pinky finger to swell and become weak or clumsy. Pain, numbness, and tingling in these two fingers are also symptoms of cubital tunnel syndrome.