Hand And Arm Pain

Hand, wrist and elbow pain can be caused by traumatic injury, irritated nerves or overworked muscles. It can be debilitating and difficult to rehabilitate as we use our hands so much, our arms don’t get much time to rest and heal.

The frequent use of our arms means they can also be a common area of pain when we are compensating for problems elsewhere in the body e.g. wrist RSI from poor computer posture. If the root cause of your hand, wrist or elbow pain is somewhere else in your body, rehabilitation focused at the site of the pain will have limited effect. In these situations it is essential to identify and treat the root cause of your problem as the high daily demands we place on our hands and arms means it won’t get better by itself.

Common Hand And Arm Injuries We treat

Tennis elbow pain treatment.

  • Tennis elbow

  • Golfer’s elbow

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome

  • Weak wrists (pain with weight bearing)

  • Referred nerve pain or tingling into the arms and hands

  • Thoracic outlet syndrome

  • Pins and needles or numbness in the hands and arms

  • Rehab following wrist, hand and arm fractures

  • Rehab following wrist, hand and arm surgery

  • De Quervain’s tenosynovitis

  • Hand and wrist repetitive strain injury (RSI)

  • Intersection syndrome

  • Wrist pain or pins and needles while bike riding

Hand And Arm Injury treatment at move mountains physio

Physiotherapy assessment of tennis elbow pain.

  • Local assessment of your hand and arm pain to identify the irritated tissue causing your pain.

  • Provide and fit hand, wrist and elbow braces and supports as necessary.

  • Tape your hand or arm injury to relieve your pain and promote tissue healing as required.

  • Whole body assessment to determine the root cause of your hand or arm injury e.g. is your hand or arm compensating for weak shoulder muscles?

  • Educate you on the cause of your hand or arm injury and important postural and movement changes you need to make to quickly heal your arm pain.

  • Assess your ergonomic set-up or sports technique and advise you of changes you can make to alleviate your hand and arm pain.

  • Quickly take away your hand or arm pain with hands-on treatment or by teaching you self-release techniques and mobility exercises you can do to quickly treat your own injury.

  • Teach you exercises to activate and strengthen the muscles of your hand and arm.

  • Teach you how to use or adapt your hand and arm movements for necessary day to day activities to decrease your hand or arm pain e.g. gripping, weight bearing.

  • Improve your sleep by removing your hand or arm pain and educating you on good sleeping positions for your situation.

  • Guide you through a personalised hand or arm rehabilitation program to heal your injured tissues and to get you back to full function.

Hand And Arm Pain treatment at home

Arm pain treatment at home.

  • If you have sustained an acute arm injury or wrist sprain, take a look at our blog “How To Recover From An Injury Faster”.

  • Referred pain or pins and needles in the arms (Thoracic Outlet Syndrome) can be a result of compression of the nerves or blood vessels as they run between your ribcage and shoulder. Watch our YouTube series on good posture to quickly alleviate your pain.

  • If you have pain or discomfort in your arms, hands or wrists, try some gentle yoga with a focus on opening up your chest and shoulders. Here are some of our favourite stretches to treat arm pain at home.

  • If you have pain down the back of your arm or into your elbow, use a roller to release your lat as tight lats can compress the nerves in your arm.

  • If you have wrist RSI working at your computer and use an ergonomic mouse, get rid of it. Watch these videos on good ergonomic set-up.

  • There are many exercises for tennis and golfer’s elbow freely available online. While there is good evidence to support these exercises, these injuries are a result of biomechanical dysfunction. This means these exercises will be more effective when the root cause of your tennis or golfers elbow pain is also treated.

For quick relief of hand, wrist or arm pain book an appointment with one of our Upper Limb Injury Specialists either online or in our Jindabyne physiotherapy clinic.

Or, If you’re still not sure, book a free 15-minute online consult so that we can discuss your arm injury and how our unique treatment approach can quickly alleviate your arm pain.