Do Wrist Supports & Wrist Guards Really Stop Wrist Pain?

Why does wrist pain develop? And how do Tiger Paw Wrist Supports help stop and or prevent that ache?

The wrist is an curious joint because stiffness or even fusion causes relatively little difficulty, while if it is wobbly and unstable there can't be real problems. The wrist provides the platform from which the fine motions of the fingers operate.

This is true especially if you undertake activities that are strenuous on the wrist like bowling, gymnastics, yoga or you sit at a computer all day.

To demonstrate this position, make a fist and put your thumb in the middle of the wrist. Looking down your arm, the thumb should be on an imaginary horizontal line going straight down the middle of your forearm.

The "carpal tunnel syndrome" can cause pain at the wrist. In "carpal tunnel syndrome"usually the squeezing results from too much inflammatory tissue. The cause can be tennis playing, a blow to the front of the wrist, gymnastics, bowling, rheumatoid arthritis, or many other activities that repeatedly flex and extend the wrist. In addition to wrist pain, this syndrome can cause pains to shoot down into the fingers or up into the forearm; usually there is a numb feeling in the fingers, as if they were asleep.

You can identify this syndrome pretty well without a doctor. The numbness in the fingers will not involve the little finger and often will not involve the half of the ring finger nearest the little finger. If you tap with a finger on the front of the wrist, you may get a sudden tingling in the fingers similar to the feeling of hitting your funny bone. Tingling and pain in the carpal tunnel syndrome may be worse at night or when the wrists are bent down.

Since stability is very important and loss of motion is not as serious in the wrist as in other joints, the treatment strategy is a little different. Exercises to stretch the joint are not very important. The strategy is to rest the joint in the position of best function. Wrist supports are built for this purpose and are available on the Internet at http://TigerPawWristSupport.com.

This company has been making their supports for 25 years by hand and are the supplier for professional, collegiate and most competitive sports (especially gymnasts) all over the globe.

The Tiger Paw Wrist Support is delivered with a foam pad and two plastic inserts used to customize the rigidity of the support to the user.

Wear your wrist support whenever you are working with your wrist. Even the carpal tunnel syndrome is first treated by wrist supports. If you have strained or hurt your wrist you might want to wear it until it is can heal. But since nerve damage could be serious, give your medical professional a call if you seem to have the carpal tunnel syndrome.

No prescribed medication should be necessary. Aspirin and similar-strength medications are OK but probably cannot help at all. If you are taking a prescribed anti-inflammatory drug be certain that you are taking it just as directed; sometimes a flare-up is simply due to inadequate medication.

Our best tip? Find the highest quality wrist support you can find and wear it anytine you stress you wrist - or all the time when you have already stressed your wrist to give it time to be healed!