Clicking wrist and stiffness in hand.
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For a while now, my left wrist has been making quite an audible clicking noise and the end of my Ulna (forgive me if this is incorrect, I've only just googled wrist bones!) feels like it is popping out of a joint in my wrist, it can be felt and seen whilst this is happening.
This happens when moving rotating my wrist and is a pain in the arse in my line of work as a plumber! After a while it becomes quite painful and is usually accompanied with my left hand becoming stiff and increasingly painful.
Any ideas? I'd like to go to my doctor with some idea of what is wrong, as they are pretty much useless and tend to fob me off constantly. I'm 24 if that makes a difference.
No problems with my right side at all.
This happens when moving rotating my wrist and is a pain in the arse in my line of work as a plumber! After a while it becomes quite painful and is usually accompanied with my left hand becoming stiff and increasingly painful.
Any ideas? I'd like to go to my doctor with some idea of what is wrong, as they are pretty much useless and tend to fob me off constantly. I'm 24 if that makes a difference.
No problems with my right side at all.
Rickyy said:
For a while now, my left wrist has been making quite an audible clicking noise and the end of my Ulna (forgive me if this is incorrect, I've only just googled wrist bones!) feels like it is popping out of a joint in my wrist, it can be felt and seen whilst this is happening.
This happens when moving rotating my wrist and is a pain in the arse in my line of work as a plumber! After a while it becomes quite painful and is usually accompanied with my left hand becoming stiff and increasingly painful.
Any ideas? I'd like to go to my doctor with some idea of what is wrong, as they are pretty much useless and tend to fob me off constantly. I'm 24 if that makes a difference.
No problems with my right side at all.
1.There are two main bones in your lower arm.This happens when moving rotating my wrist and is a pain in the arse in my line of work as a plumber! After a while it becomes quite painful and is usually accompanied with my left hand becoming stiff and increasingly painful.
Any ideas? I'd like to go to my doctor with some idea of what is wrong, as they are pretty much useless and tend to fob me off constantly. I'm 24 if that makes a difference.
No problems with my right side at all.
2.Your wrist goes not rotate,your forearm does.
Therefore if your wrist does,actually, rotate,you've broken it and I'm not surprised that "after a while it becomes quite painful."
Try to stop playing with it.
Do you have other joints that are more flexible than in most people?
Joint moving partway out of line is called subluxation. All the way, dislocation, and nearly as painful as a broken bone unless your ligaments are already totally f
ked. You can get little neoprene hand/wrist splints that help to hold everything together, big outlets of Boots sell them, often sports shops do too.
Joint moving partway out of line is called subluxation. All the way, dislocation, and nearly as painful as a broken bone unless your ligaments are already totally f
ked. You can get little neoprene hand/wrist splints that help to hold everything together, big outlets of Boots sell them, often sports shops do too. mattikake said:
^ circumduction of a condyloid joint. 
Haha that's not true rotation.
Technically you're right of course but it's a particularly loose definition of circumduction when you compare a condyloid to a b+s joint.Here's another: When's flexion not really flexion?
Answers on a postcard...
When horizontal flexion/extention of the shoulder is really protraction and retraction or is inward/outward rotation?
Or when it's plantarflexion and dorsiflexion?
Or some other term the medical fraternity decided on which wasn't really consistent. There are many! Too many cooks etc.
My favourite is when the whole world uses yaw, pitch and roll in all fields, except for medicine who decided to call the planes of movement something else, presumably as some thinly veiled attempt intellectual classism.
Or when it's plantarflexion and dorsiflexion?
Or some other term the medical fraternity decided on which wasn't really consistent. There are many! Too many cooks etc.
My favourite is when the whole world uses yaw, pitch and roll in all fields, except for medicine who decided to call the planes of movement something else, presumably as some thinly veiled attempt intellectual classism.
and....... back on topic.
Original poster: GP, proper story and examination, referral for Xrays if appropriate, referral to hand surgeon if appropriate, MRI arthrogram if appropriate.
very many ifs here, but the first step is clear.
Will.
And to the others: the ankle is a mitred-hinge, so dorsiflexion/plantarflexion is a mass movement occuring at ankle, subtalar, talocalcaneal and into the mid and forefoot:
Original poster: GP, proper story and examination, referral for Xrays if appropriate, referral to hand surgeon if appropriate, MRI arthrogram if appropriate.
very many ifs here, but the first step is clear.
Will.
And to the others: the ankle is a mitred-hinge, so dorsiflexion/plantarflexion is a mass movement occuring at ankle, subtalar, talocalcaneal and into the mid and forefoot:
Thought I'd update this thread (expecting more wking related jokes).
I've been to my GP, a Physio, had an x-ray and recently been to a consultant in a fracture clinic. He sent me off for another x-ray and has concluded (in layman terms) that a tendon is not staying where it should and is catching on the ulna as I move my wrist.
I'm on the waiting list for an operation in which they'll cut open my wrist and scrape away bits of bone and gristle in order to make a channel for the tendon to sit in, or something! Recovery period of 6-8 weeks!
Quick question for those in the profession, am I likely to be in plaster after an operation like this?
king related jokes).I've been to my GP, a Physio, had an x-ray and recently been to a consultant in a fracture clinic. He sent me off for another x-ray and has concluded (in layman terms) that a tendon is not staying where it should and is catching on the ulna as I move my wrist.
I'm on the waiting list for an operation in which they'll cut open my wrist and scrape away bits of bone and gristle in order to make a channel for the tendon to sit in, or something! Recovery period of 6-8 weeks!
Quick question for those in the profession, am I likely to be in plaster after an operation like this?
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