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Old 05-16-2011, 09:22 PM   #18
Keith Larman
Dojo: AIA, Los Angeles, CA
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Re: Wrist Hangovers: Your Suggestions And Experience With Wrist Pain?

Years ago my PT made a suggestion that made a huge difference for me. Since my work is often kind of hard on my arms and wrists, the added abuse during aikido was leaving me often with some pretty serious pain. After a bit of work on day he suggested I try putting on a protective wrist brace at night before I went to bed. What was happening was that as I slept at night I would sometime end up on my wrist or with my wrist flexed too much. By using a wrist brace with a rigid insert to keep the wrist stable I found most of my wrist pain was gone in a week or two. Of course everything else matters too, but by isolating it at night I was able to give it a good amount of healing time.

FWIW.

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