text: what have i done to my wrist? i couldn't kick the ball back to my daughter as i had flip flops on, so i hit it voleyball style.  unfortunately,  i missed my palm & used only my wrist to hit it.  straight away a lump formed on my wrist and by god it hurt.  my vein fekt like it was gonna pop out!!!  it is not broke as i can move all my fingers and type without any problems.  it hurts when i try to grip things and the lump has not gone down.  it is strated to bruise and i have a tingling sensation down the left side of my wrist.  i don't want to wait in a&e for 5 hours as it will be full of drunk football fans & sunburnt kids.  any idea of what i could have done? funny you should say that you hit it like a volleyball, i had this same injury from a volleyball. my diagnonsense,...in simple terms i bruised the bones, pinched a nerve (thus that lovely tingling sensation that will abate after a day or so), and broke a cluster of blood vessels, thus the resulting lump.  do not fear, it will heal, but it will be mildly painful and aggravating for the next week or so depending on how fast you heal,...i found that putting an ace bandage on it worked fairly well to keep me from strainign it.     and as with most things like this, the injury will fade, but the embarrasment seldom does,...hope you had better luck then me and just hurt your arm,...because at the time of my injury i dived for the volleyball and my pants split straight up the back,...hehehe