Wrist pain when supporting hard may be caused by muscle strain at wrist joint, tenosynovitis, gout, traumatic arthritis of wrist joint.
1. Wrist muscle strain: maintaining a wrist movement for a long time may lead to excessive muscle strain at the wrist joints, which may cause pain when the wrist is supported by force, and the pain can be relieved by applying ointment and fixing the brace.
2. Tenosynovitis: due to the frequent activities of the fingers, the wrist tendon sheath and tendon repeated friction, resulting in tendon sheath local edema, compression of the wrist surrounding tissues, the phenomenon of pain when the wrist is supported with force, which may be accompanied by swelling, restricted activities and other symptoms.
At this time, it is necessary to reduce hand activities and use a brace to fixate; if the pain is obvious, you can take anti-inflammatory painkillers such as Loxoprofen sodium orally to relieve pain; if necessary, surgery is needed to loosen the tendon, tendon sheath adhesion.
3. Gout: patients with elevated blood uric acid will cause gout attacks, the formation of gout stones, if the gout stones in the wrist local deposition, will also cause pain when the wrist support, and also accompanied by redness and swelling of the symptoms, at this time the need for oral colchicine and other uric acid-lowering drugs to relieve the symptoms.
4. Wrist traumatic arthritis: If the patient has a fracture of the distal radius articular surface, it will easily cause healing traumatic arthritis, resulting in wrist pain when supported, this time need to reduce the activities, fixed support, if necessary, surgical treatment.
Wrist pain when supporting, if the pain continues to be unrelieved, should go to the hospital in a timely manner, to clarify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor for standardized treatment, so as to avoid delays in the condition.