Wrist pain mostly refers to wrist joint pain, and the common causes of wrist pain after a fall are: soft tissue injury, bone fracture and so on. 1. Soft tissue injury: when you fall, your palm hits the ground, and the wrist joint flexes and extends excessively under the action of external forces, which can cause soft tissue injuries such as muscles, tendons and blood vessels around the wrist joint, and after the injury, there can be localized swelling of the wrist joint, pain, difficulty in activities, ecchymosis and other symptoms of the skin. 2. Fracture: If the palm or the back of the hand supports the ground when you fall, if the force is relatively large or you have osteoporosis, it can cause distal ulna fracture, distal radius fracture or ulna-radius double fracture, and it can also appear the fracture of navicular, lunate, triangular and other carpal bones, and after the fracture, the localization can appear the deformity, pressure and pain, and the symptoms of activity limitation. There are many causes of wrist pain after a fall, if the symptoms continue to be unrelieved, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time to clarify the cause of the disease and carry out targeted treatment.