Trauma and Physical Damage To The Wrists
Trauma can cause a variety of structural alterations in your wrists. You have bones, articulations, and soft tissues in your wrists, and all of them can be affected by trauma. Traumatic wrist injuries reduce the range of motion. Damage in tendons and ligaments can result in a wrist sprain or strain and can be accompanied by partial or total tearing of ligaments, tendons, or muscles. That’s why weakness is one of the main features of sprains and strains. Bones can also be affected by a wrist fracture, which happens in the carpal bones (wrist bone). Wrist fractures reduce the range of motion and trigger very severe pain.
Wrist sprains happen when you do something that causes a violent stretch of a ligament in the wrist. A ligament in the wrist becomes stretched if you fall onto an outstretched hand, or even by lifting something too heavy. Actually, one of the most common causes of traumatic injuries to the wrist is an incorrect technique when lifting weights at the gym, especially when working out your shoulders or chest muscles.
At first, wrist injuries can give a sensation of weakness, numbness, or tingling. Sometimes the pain is resolved. However, these sensations may remain for weeks or months. In some cases, people may lose some sensation in the hand.