This injury is caused by repetitive strain on the tendon due to frequent, awkward positioning of the wrist and/or thumb. It can be brought on by repetition of many everyday activities, including: The ...

Your scaphoid bone is on the thumb side of your wrist. It’s often broken when you fall and catch yourself on an outstretched hand. A scaphoid fracture causes swelling, pain, and tenderness below ...

With both my son and now my newest baby, I started having pain in my wrist at the base of my thumb a few months in. The pain made it hard to hold and lift objects, but I could tell it wasn’t typical ...

For inside-of-the-wrist pain, an acupuncturist may suspect trigger points in the hand flexor muscles — the flexor carpi radials and flexor carpi ulnaris. The pronator teres, whose trigger points refer ...

In hand OA, the joints most commonly affected by OA are the wrists, the joints at the base of the thumb ... pain, swelling, inflammation and loss of function. RA commonly affects the wrist and finger ...

The following are the main structures of the hands: The wrist is formed where the two bones of the forearm – the radius (the larger bone on the thumb side of the arm) and the ulna (the smaller bone on ...

People often feel pain in their wrist on the thumb side, but the pain may also spread to the thumb itself and the forearm. The base of the thumb may also be swollen. Movements of the thumb and wrist, ...