Hand Pain Risk Factors
Perhaps the most critical step to preventing hand pain is understanding its risk factors. They are elements and circumstances that increase the prevalence of a given disease. When you know about risk factors, you realize what to avoid if you want to prevent health problems.
In this case, you’ll be at a higher risk of hand pain in these cases:
- If your job involves repetitive hand movements, counting, using your manual dexterity, especially gripping objects tightly.
- If you’re continuously gripping or performing hand movements, even if that’s not a part of your job.
- If you have frequent hand injuries or had recent trauma.
- When your hand posture is poor and not supported by ergonomic aids at the office.
- If your working environment is not suitable for handwork.
- If you have a family history or medical history of hand pain.
- If your diet has plenty of inflammatory foods.
As you will notice in this article, there are different recommendations depending on the chronic disease you want to prevent. For instance, let’s evaluate prevention tips for carpal tunnel syndrome and hand arthritis.