Wrist pain or open wrist is a type of syndrome that prevents the patient using their hand due to a painful wrist. The pain may be sharp, sometimes steadily increasing after trying to apply force. Typically pain is caused after exerting too strong a demand on the wrist, as is the case with weight lifters, athletes in general, or with any weight-bearing activity to the wrist.

Remedies and causes

• After applying hot or cold pads in the first moments, if there is no inflammation, the use of a simple leather or neoprene wrist brace (or even a steel-reinforced one), is recommended in order to rest the wrist.^[1]

Wrist pain can be caused by one or more of a number of different disorders, such as:

• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Wrist osteoarthritis
• Kienbock's disease
• Scaphoid fracture
• Scapholunate dissociation
• Carpal boss
• Ganglion cyst
• Ulnar nerve entrapment, sometimes due to wrist or elbow abnormalities such as Guyon's canal syndrome or cubital tunnel syndrome
• Wrist fracture, wrist sprain
• Tendonitis wrist (Extensor) or thumb (DeQuervains)
• Psoriatic arthritis