A few weeks ago you had your baby. Your expected baby You have been reading for a while Babies and more and you have read on so many occasions that babies should not be allowed to cry that they spend the day in your arms or dad's.
Well, you haven't read it here, or it just comes out of you. The need to calm his discomfort, calm his tears and try to restore the tranquility he has lost is born from within. The fact is that you have been with a wrist ache increasingly stronger and when you have told dad he told you "how curious", because he also has some discomfort. Is a wrist tendonitis and appears for that, for catch or carry the child in your arms.
More usual than it seems
Maybe you think it's strange and you never heard it, but is very habitual. In my house, for example, we both suffered (she more than me, because she has spent more time with them than me) and it happened to us with the three children, when they were babies. To hold them, to carry them in arms and to do it often with one hand, so leaving the other free, the arm acquires a "spoon" position and the hand flexes more, in order to make the grip more sure.
The problem is that hyperflexion of the wrist is not usual. We are not used to it and when it happens many times for a while the tendon ends up complaining, swelling and causing pain. This is how the wrist tendonitis.
The wrist tendons are poorly protected
Perhaps you think "well, with the muscles and joints involved when taking a baby and have to suffer precisely the structures of the wrist", and it is true. We use the back, the shoulder, the arms, and it turns out that it suffers the least force, which is the wrist. This is because the wrist tendons are very poorly protected, there is very little muscle to help support.
To understand this I will talk about the knee, an articulation that many people complain about. The knee, because of the weight, because of the exercise, hurts a lot of people. There are those who, in a habitual mistake, because of the pain that it produces or the annoyance, decide to stop playing sports: "I can't, because if I do sports then my knee hurts." It is a mistake, precisely, because the muscles surrounding the joint are left without strength and then, every movement made by the person will depend on the knee. When it hurts, it is recommended do strength exercises to give strength and endurance to the muscles. That way, every movement will be carried out by those muscles and that way they will be protecting the joint. Ask the runners what they do when their knee hurts when they run. They will tell you that they get in the gym to crush the legs to gain strength and power in them, and that from that moment, the knees stop hurting.
Well, the doll has hardly any muscle around to protect her and that is why she is the first to say "it hurts." And the symptoms are those, a pain that gives you the feeling that it will go away if you make a few turns with the wrist, as if "crunching it" is going to put itself in the correct position and it will stop hurting, but without that coming to pass. Sometimes the pain is such that it rises to the elbow and even to the shoulder, and the nights are usually hard in this aspect.
How to treat a wrist tendonitis
Ideally, if the pain is strong, go to the doctor to take a look. Most likely recommend take anti-inflammatories and maybe some exercise that includes massages, stretching, ice application in the area of pain and rest. "Yes, I rest, with a child, how?" Well, as you can. If the pain is especially when you carry it in your arms you will have to find a way to load it without constantly holding it that way. Maybe a scarf or baby carrier will do well to free your wrists. Maybe for a few days I can help you more dad, or a relative, to not always make the gesture of catching him.
It is a time, then the pain disappears and in the end it is only a memory, but it is annoying because the treatment is complicated to follow. If there was no baby, perfect, in a few days it is solved, but as the cause of tendinitis is the mere fact of taking care of your child, recovery is much slower.
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