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Wrist injuries and disorders
Wrist injuries and disorders are conditions in which a person has problems in one or both wrists due to bruises, sprains, fractures, arthritis, infections, nerve damage, etc
Dr. Geoffrey Rutledge reviewed this
39 year experience in Internal Medicine
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What is the definition or description of: Wrist injuries and disorders?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Is carpel tunnel an auto-immune disease? Does it happen from wrist injury, like a fall, and can it go away?
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A 41-year old female asked:
I have heart disease and take Ranexa, daily aspirin, statins. I had a wrist injury and taking Naproxen and applying Diclofenac gel. Is it safe to take for over a week? I felt some palpitations in the last couple of days, so was wondering. Thank you?
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What is the definition or description of: Hand injuries and disorders?
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A 29-year old asked:
What type of injuries makes your wrist creek?
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A 33-year old asked:
How serious are wrist injuries?
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A 39-year old asked:
How to tell if I have a wrist injury?
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A 34-year old asked:
What is the best way to treat a wrist injury?
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A 18-year old female asked:
What's the fastest way to heal a wrist injury?
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A 43-year old female asked:
My wrists crack anytime i move them, no injury.
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A 33-year old asked:
What is the quickest way to heal a wrist injury?
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A 43-year old asked:
When should you be concerned about a wrist injury?
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A 29-year old asked:
What should I do to heal a basketball wrist injury?
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A 37-year old asked:
What should I do with wrist injury that is two weeks old?
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A 40-year old asked:
Growth plate injury wrist. Will I end up with a stiff wrist?
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A 40-year old female asked:
How can a dr tell when a minor growth plate injury to the wrist is healed?
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A 38-year old asked:
I have a wrist injury. What are some tips you that would help me deal with the pain?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Can rsd be an instant result from an injury? I asked about my wrist fall yesterday and that was answer given .
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A 34-year old asked:
Wrist injury that seems to only be getting worst, however i can still use it and function with it. How do I treat this?
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A 22-year old male asked:
What could cause bilateral wrist and shoulder pain with no obvious injury of any kind ? Just seems to come out of no where
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A 48-year old asked:
Yesterday i got really drunk and woke up with a lot of injuries. Don't remember much. How can you tell if your wrist is broken?
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A 42-year old male asked:
I realize this is a broad question, but in GENERAL and on AVERAGE, do wrist injuries take a longer time to heal than other injuries? Like months?
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A 18-year old male asked:
I have a pain near the pinkie part of my wirst when i turn that part of the wrist inwards. There is now swelling at all. . What injury am i having?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Ever since I was little (I can remember as young as 5years old,) when I rotate my left wrist is clicks and grinds. No injuries, but I do have Type1dia?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Injury when i used to dance on wrist. Never got checked. Looks like hole on top of wrist, like a piece is missing. Hurts all the time, hard to push-up?
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A 69-year old female asked:
When i extend my wrist by stretching or reaching, it feels like my skin is tearing off, even when i rub with a towel to dry off.right wrist no injuries?
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A 19-year old male asked:
What is the best way to get a work release form to go back to work from an injury that happened outside of work? They wont let me return back without one but my injury is in my wrist. It has been 5 days since the incident and any pressure hurts bad?
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A 41-year old asked:
What should I do if I have a soft tissue injury in wrist?
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A 41-year old asked:
What to do if I broke my wrist will this injury hurt when I'm older?
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A 38-year old asked:
Is it normal for your wrist to still be swollen 4 months after injury?
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