DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE HAND PAIN

Hello Hermina Friends, you may have experienced pain in your hands and fingers. Pain in the hands and fingers turns out to be a common health problem and often interferes with the sufferer's activities, you know... The sensation felt can be like a general aching feeling, a tingling sensation from the wrist area, to the tips of the fingers, even in certain conditions the fingers are can't be moved. This condition can be triggered by mild to serious disorders, such as injury, rheumatoid arthritis, carpal tunnel syndrome, Trigger finger, de Quervain disease, ganglion cysts, and so on.

Let's get to know the various causes of hand pain and how to overcome them through the review below.

1. Injury

The first and most common cause of wrist pain is injury. Injury or force can have an effect on bone structures such as fractures or cracks or non-bones such as sprains and dislocations (shifting of bones away from the joint)  in the wrist. This condition usually occurs due to several things, such as:

Sudden impact due to using the hand as support when falling.
Often do activities that involve repetitive hand movements, such as driving, playing musical instruments, playing sports, basketball, etc.

2. Rheumatoid Arthritis
The next cause of wrist pain is rheumatoid arthritis, which is an autoimmune disease that causes the body's immune system to attack the lubricating fluid that surrounds the joints (synovium). As a result, the connective tissue and cartilage around the joints will be damaged, including the joints in the wrist. This condition is different from osteoarthritis which is basically a degenerative or aging process.

3. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome is also a cause of wrist pain that needs to be watched out for. Apart from pain, carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers also often complain of frequent tingling in their hands, their hands becoming less sensitive to touch, and swelling and discoloration of the skin of their hands.

This condition can occur due to compression of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel (the gap between the carpal bones and ligaments in the wrist). There are a number of factors that can increase a person's risk of experiencing carpal tunnel syndrome, including:

- Pregnancy.
- Suffering from diabetes.
- Suffering from rheumatoid arthritis.
- Disruption of body fluid balance.
- Suffering from obesity.
- Have work that involves repetitive hand movements, such as office workers who work long-term typing and sports athletes whose sports activities are dominated by the use of their hands, namely tennis, volleyball, badminton athletes, etc

4. Ganglion Cyst
Ganglion cysts are one of the causes of wrist pain which occurs due to the presence of cysts or abnormal soft tissue on the upper side of the wrist. This condition can cause pain that gets worse, especially when the sufferer moves the wrist.

5. Trigger Finger and de Quervain disease

Trigger finger is inflammation of the tendons or tissue that connects bones and muscles so that a painful sensation arises when the sufferer bends or straightens the fingers, while de Quervain disease is inflammation of the tendons in the wrist area and the upper side of the thumb. Trigger finger can also cause the finger to feel stiff so it cannot be moved. Generally the fingers feel stiff when bent.



Trigger finger can occur in one or several fingers. However, usually this condition most often affects the right hand, specifically the little finger, ring finger and thumb. This condition is also known as stenosing tenosynovitis or trigger finger.

How to Treat Wrist Pain
Treatment for wrist pain tends to vary depending on the severity and underlying cause. However, a number of medical procedures commonly performed to treat wrist pain are as follows:



1. Consuming drugs
The first way to deal with wrist pain is to take analgesic medication to relieve the pain that arises. Several types of analgesic drugs that doctors often prescribe to treat wrist pain are ibuprofen, paracetamol, NSAIDs, and.

2. Physiotherapy
Physiotherapy is a rehabilitation therapy to control symptoms, restore the body's abilities, restore body function and movement, and minimize physical limitations that occur due to certain injuries or diseases.

3. Pain Intervention
Pain intervention management or Interventional Pain Management (IPM) is a minimally invasive procedure carried out with the guidance of tools to treat acute and chronic pain long-term or permanently.

The procedure is carried out by inserting certain drugs, substances or tools into the body structure or certain parts of the body that are the source of pain. Next, block the nerves which are part of the mechanism of pain transmission in a targeted manner using guidance tools such as ultrasonography (USG), fluoroscopy, C-Arm, and other supporting tools

4. Operation
Surgery can be performed to treat wrist pain if it is triggered by several things, such as:

Fractures and dislocations.
Non-traumatic cases where ultrasound guiding pain intervention has been carried out but have not provided optimal results in cases of Trigger finger, de Quervain diseasde, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Cases of ganglion cysts enlarge progressively and symptoms do not improve with medication


That's the cause, symptoms and treatment of hand pain. If Hermina's friend has the above symptoms, you can immediately consult an orthopedic doctor at Hermina Mekarsari Hospital.