Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Numbness, tingling or pins and needles through your thumb, index and middle fingers, often worst overnight. It's a nerve compressed at the wrist, and there's usually plenty worth trying before surgery comes up.
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Hand and Wrist Pain: Common Causes and Conditions
Hand and wrist pain is easy to work around, right up until it isn't. You keep gripping, typing and carrying, and the ache turns into the thing that wakes you at 2am.
Where it hurts tells us a lot. Numbness through the thumb side, pain on the little-finger side of your wrist, and pain that started with a fall are three different problems with three different plans. Pick whichever of the four below sounds closest.
Conditions we see in this region
If you've had a fall and your wrist is painful, swollen or you can't grip properly, get it imaged rather than waiting it out.
TFCC Injury (Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex)
Pain on the little-finger side of the wrist, often after a fall onto an outstretched hand, racquet sports, or repeated twisting and loading. Usually managed conservatively first.
Read moreScaphoid Fracture
Wrist pain that started with a fall onto an outstretched hand and hasn't settled. Scaphoid fractures are commonly missed on an early X-ray, so it's taken seriously even when imaging looks clear.
Read moreRepetitive Strain Injury (Wrist)
Ache, weakness or burning that builds through the day at a keyboard or on the tools. We see it across desk workers, tradies and new parents.
Read moreWrist Sprain
A wrist sprain means a ligament, one of the tough bands holding your wrist bones together, has been stretched or torn. It usually happens during sport, a sudden movement or a fall
Read moreTrigger Finger
Trigger finger is a finger or thumb that catches, gets stuck bent, or straightens with a click or snap
Read moreGanglion Cyst (Wrist)
A ganglion cyst is a benign (non-cancerous) collection of fluid on a joint or tendon. It's the most common lump on the hand, usually on the back of the hand or wrist
Read moreMallet Finger
With mallet finger, the tip of your finger stays bent and you can't straighten it yourself
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