Wrist Pain
ChiroFITCMT: I'm a massage therapist.  I have worked with professional athletes, college swimmers, and desk jockeys alike.Get yourself a good massage therapist, I don't know where you are, but find a qualified professional on www.AMTA.org. be sure to ask them questions about whether they have dealt with chronic wrist pain in the past, and they can show you a series of stretches and/or exercises to help you be more pain free.  Now, I truly hope massage can help your situation, letting symptoms go unattended to is definitely a BAD idea, as prolonged compression of a nerve can lead to permanent nerve damage.  You should feel some relief after your first session, but I would highly recommend going once a week for 30 minutes to an hour for at least the first 3 weeks of treatment.  Your therapist should work on the small passageway of your ulnar nerve right at the base of your wrist below your little finger  as this area often gets compressed from keeping your wrists pointed IN and your hands turned out to stay aligned with the keys.  The wrist flexor and extensor muscle attachments should also be attended to at the top of the forearm near the elbow and on the underside of your forearm as well.Another very immediate thing you can do is to purchase an ergonomic keyboard with the split down the center, this allows the wrists to be at a much more normalized angle than traditional keyboards.  Also look at how your mouse is...if it's straight up and down, with the two click buttons evenly placed at the top, this is not the mouse for you.  Ideally, a mouse at an angle to fit your hand with a trackball on the thumb side is what you're looking for.  Try and find a mouse with an offset right and left click button to follow the natural difference in first and second digit finger length.If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at my office,Andrea J. Munsell, Certified Massage Therapist
The ChiroFIT Wellness Center
2249 Wealthy St. SE, suite #240
East Grand Rapids, MI 49506
(616)458-CFIT  (2348)