Wrist Pain!!! Please help.

**weerydo** · 05-05-2009 07:28 PM

Hi, I'm fairly new to lifting, however, last night whilst at the gym i was doing bicep cuurls and felt this pain in my wrist afterwards. Its like someone is pushing on the pressure point in my wrist and i can feel this pain right along my forearm. Its like a funny kind of nerve pain i think. Anyone experianced anything like this or know what it could be? Should i just rest it for a week or pay the doctor a visit?

**Damothelad** · 05-05-2009 07:31 PM

was you using a barbel? cause i get the same

try dumbells or an ez bar

**Monkfish** · 05-05-2009 07:53 PM

Once the pain is gone I would take some preventative measures and strengthen your wrists with wrist curls etc. so that it doesnt happen again.

Straight-bar work can be hell on the wrists, so try using dumbells or different bars as suggested above to hold your wrists in a more natural position. Also, hold your wrists straight (neutral) during lifts, so that you're not putting the pressure of the weight on them in a weak position (rolled up/down).

**weerydo** · 06-05-2009 05:32 PM

Went to see the doctor today. She said it was a stretched nerve. I pressume this was due to the way I was holding the dumbell? Has anyone ever experianced this before? What can be done to prevent this reoccuring? Also any idea how long I should wait before lifting again?

**Monkfish** · 06-05-2009 06:54 PM

As I said mate, keep your wrists straight through the lift as that's where they're strongest. Wrist wraps might also be useful short term, but personally I'd rather fix a problem than use equipment to ignore it. So rest, then strengthen them, and make sure you lift properly

Just remember: they're bicep curls, not wrist curls!

**Tomskiii** · 06-05-2009 07:54 PM

Is it right along the bone? As i used to get that and still do abit if i do curls, i used to get a building pain along the bone in my forearms that would peak as i put the bar down and released the pressure. From what i read what i had was thought to be to do with a muscle imbalance between the forearm and upper arm or something like that.

**Nicholars** · 07-05-2009 04:50 PM

I used to get wrist pain resulting from a broken wrist when i was younger and fell down a hill...

When i first started doing bb curls i would get it all the time now i can lift at least twice as much and get no pain at all....

Also using an ez bar is a lot easier on the wrists than using a straight bar.

Basically same as what monkfish said stick with it and eventually you will strengthen it,

Dumbells are probably worse if its just in one arm, i would say from experience stick with the ez bar and gradually it will get stronger.

**anabolic** · 07-05-2009 04:55 PM

ez bars give me THE worst pain along my forearm, feels like the bone is bending, don't experience it with anything else...

**weerydo** · 07-05-2009 05:19 PM

Think im going to be out of it for a while. Its something to do with my nerve. Called neuralgia. The pain is unbelieveable. Shoots down my forearm constantly. Its like the horrible feeling u get when you bump ur funny bone only its there all day long!

**Nicholars** · 07-05-2009 06:19 PM

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Originally Posted by weerydo

Think im going to be out of it for a while. Its something to do with my nerve. Called neuralgia. The pain is unbelieveable. Shoots down my forearm constantly. Its like the horrible feeling u get when you bump ur funny bone only its there all day long!

Oh well id listen to your doctor then... thats not the sort of pain i had mine was just weakness and a sort of stinging pain in the bone