I was lifting a wight bar the other day, and felt a pop in my wrist. It hurt at the time it happened but not too bad shortly after that. That night I woke up several times from pain in my wrist. The pain is on the pinky side of my wrist. I have some swelling and a lot of tenderness near that bump at the base of my wrist. It also hurts pretty bad to turn my arm or pick up anything. Is this just a bad sprain, or something else?
Hello, It looks from your details that you may have a sprain of collateral ligament of medial side of wrist. You should do following to have relief in this:- Do cold fomentation over it for at least 3 days after injury.- Apply an ace bandage over it, starting from hand towards the wrist.- Take a good analgesic like Advil, aspirin or ibuprofen.- Give rest to affected hand. Do all this for at least 5-7 days. Even after that if you have any problem then it will be better to have an X-ray of affected part and consult to your doctor. Hope I have answered your question. Let me know if I can assist you further. 