I have begun to suffer from hand pain after playing and sometimes during play after an hour or so. I am nearly 70 years old and I suspect it is probably arthritic in nature. The pain is centered around the area of the Trapezium, Trapezoid, and Scaphoid bones which is the area near where the thumb, 1st finger, and wrist meet. Do any of you have experience with this type of pain? I forgot to mention that the pain is in my right hand and I am right-handed.
HAND PAIN
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SystemicAnomaly
Bionic Poster
I'm wondering if this is Basal Joint Arthritis (aka thumb arthritis).
movdqa
Talk Tennis Guru
The only time I've had pain in my hands was due to direct injury. It could be as LeeD says or it could be that there's a muscular imbalance. I've found that muscular imbalances creep up with age as you don't exercise everything regularly. I do the Flexbar regularly for my forearm but it also works the hands. You might mention it to your GP on your next checkup.
kramer woodie
Professional
hray4clay
At 70 years of age also, and learning a 2 hand backhand, I used too much right wrist and developed a dorsal ganglion type lump next to the wrist bone
directly in line with the index finger. So can feel your pain. For a short time I was snapping the wrist back instead of a more side to side movement
because I used extreme eastern grip ( my normal one hand backhand) with the right hand and south western with the left hand. So could your grip position or as stated above "a death grip" be leading to your pain?
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