Arg, this Summer has been a disaster. Always something, and nohting expected. Miss 2 weeks, try to get back in and am lucky to get 3 or 4 days in a week and the next unexpected thing comes.
Anyway, so I wasn't able to do anything this past week, and was going to try to do something this week. Body has other plans. Have developed carpal tunnel from a home project (rennovating/changing a deck). So I tried to swim this morning, and it aggravated it. Want to try again tomorrow. At this point, I just bought some tape - unfortunately it is the kinesio stuff as that is what was water proof. But it likely won't stabilize my wrist.
Anyone else deal with tihs? If so, how did you successfully manage it and still swim? Wearing a splint most of the day, and a different one at night. But dont have a better plan for swimming right now.
are you able to get a soft hand brace that you can use to keep your wrist supported? I think Walgreens has them. You may want to try one that is soft/flexible, then if that doesn't work, try one with firmer, hardware support.
If it gets bad enough, could you get a steroid shot to help ease the inflammation to let it heal?
I had looked in 3 different places. COuldn't find the type of support I used to see when I had this happen once before about 10 years ago. ALl of the wrist supports had hard inserts in them. There was one nylon glove with a band around the wrist that wouldn't really give any wrist support. At any rate, this condition was brought on by a one time thing, it isn't something I have to deal with. I've not been able to get in the pool the past couple of days, and the symptoms are improving. So I probably will be fine by the time I'm able to get back in, unfortunately that looks like Tuesday of next week :-(
are you able to get a soft hand brace that you can use to keep your wrist supported? I think Walgreens has them. You may want to try one that is soft/flexible, then if that doesn't work, try one with firmer, hardware support.
If it gets bad enough, could you get a steroid shot to help ease the inflammation to let it heal?
I had looked in 3 different places. COuldn't find the type of support I used to see when I had this happen once before about 10 years ago. ALl of the wrist supports had hard inserts in them. There was one nylon glove with a band around the wrist that wouldn't really give any wrist support. At any rate, this condition was brought on by a one time thing, it isn't something I have to deal with. I've not been able to get in the pool the past couple of days, and the symptoms are improving. So I probably will be fine by the time I'm able to get back in, unfortunately that looks like Tuesday of next week :-(
