Playing tennis can put you at a higher risk of sustaining an injury to the wrist. The way you hold the racket and frequency of play can also affect the likelihood of hurting your wrist. If you experience pain in the wrist or surrounding areas,...
You sometimes expect a sore back from a round of golf, or even some discomfort in your shoulders or legs. But a sore finger or fingers can be perplexing, especially if you don't have arthritis or a pre-existing medical problem with your hands or...
Golf may seem like a low-impact, low-risk sport, yet golfers are still susceptible to various injuries. These injuries can be either cumulative (overuse) or acute (traumatic) injuries. One recent study showed that during a 2-year period, 60...
The human hand is a complex structure composed of bones, tendons, muscles, blood vessels and nerves. Hands must master both gross motor skills (grabbing a tree branch or a bat) and fine motor skills (grabbing a pen and writing). There are 27 bones...
The wrist connects the hands to the forearm and allows for the range of motion of the hand. The wrist joint allows flexion, extension and side-to-side deviation. The pronation and supination of the arm (flipping the hand over) is due to the action...
Gliding joints are also called plane joints or arthrodial joints. The book "Fundamentals Concepts of Anatomy" describes gliding joints as flat bone diarthroses that move in a gliding action that is limited by ligaments. Ligaments are the fibrous...
Many people think that pain in your wrist after a round of golf is a problem just experienced by amateur players. But wrist pain and wrist injuries are as common for professionals on the PGA Tour as they are for amateur players.
The wrist is a junction of multiple bones, ligaments, tendons, blood vessels and nerves. As such, the causes of wrist pain are numerous, but can be classified into 3 broad categories--mechanical, neurological and systemic. Regardless of the cause...
The wrist is an amalgamation of many bones, joints, nerves, tendons, ligaments and blood vessels, all of which can be injured and produce pain. Pain is subjective, however, and is felt differently from person to person. Severe pain is generally in...
There are eight carpal bones--the scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate and hamate--and five metacarpals. Each finger has three phalanges (proximal, middle and distal phalanx), except the thumb, which only has two...
