Chronic Wrist Pain: Can Last for Years, a Therapist’s Top Exercises to RelieveChronic Wrist Pain: Can Last for Years, a Therapist’s Top Exercises to Relieve
Chronic Pain

Chronic Wrist Pain: Can Last for Years, a Therapist’s Top Exercises to Relieve

Two common causes of wrist pain are decreased flexibility and muscle weakness.
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This is part 10 in Easy Exercises to Combat Chronic Pain

In this series, occupational therapist Kevin Shelley focuses on common issues associated with chronic pain and simple exercises to strengthen weak muscles and enhance joint mobility, with the goal of helping you become pain-free.

“Your wrist shares a similar complexity with your ankles, and once pain syndromes start they can be difficult to eliminate,” Rebecca Gold, an occupational therapist who has specialized in wrist and hand rehabilitation for the past 34 years, told The Epoch Times.

Compounding the problem, the wrists are in near-constant motion throughout the day, and the modern era tends to subject them to many repetitive motions, which can provoke chronic pain.