Wrist Pain
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Wrist Pain Home Care: Warning Signs
Notify your doctor if you have wrist pain and any of the following:
Hand numbness (unilateral)
Hand weakness (unilateral)
Inability to move the wrist
Fever
over 101 degrees F (38.3 C)
Worsening wrist pain (unilateral)
Worsening wrist
swelling
Worsening wrist tenderness
Wrist deformity
Wrist
laceration
Wrist
puncture wound
Wrist skin redness and pain
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Wrist Pain Underlying Cause
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Last Updated: Nov 4, 2008
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John H. Beckett, MD
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D. Scott Gettings, MD
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Wrist Pain References:
Helliwell PS. Regional musculoskeletal pain. The elbow, forearm, wrist and hand. Baillieres Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 1999 Jun;13(2):311-28.
Nagle DJ. Evaluation of chronic wrist pain. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2000 Jan-Feb;8(1):45-55.
Palmer KT. Regional musculoskeletal conditions: pain in the forearm, wrist and hand. Best Pract Res Clin Rheumatol. 2003 Feb;17(1):113-35.
Shin AY, Deitch MA, Sachar K, Boyer MI. Ulnar-sided wrist pain: diagnosis and treatment. Instr Course Lect. 2005;54:115-28.
