Pain at base of thumb

[styksnstryngs]

I sprained my wrist during Thanksgiving break, and did not pick up a racquet until a few days ago. My wrist itself is mostly fine now, but I have found that hitting my forehand causes a lot of pain in the base of my thumb. It hurts when I move my hand around, and especially when I begin accelerating the racquet forward on the forehand, or if I get jammed and have to take back quickly. The part that hurts also is a little purple and veiny. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong and what I can do to stop the pain?

 

[styksnstryngs]

I don't think the image is visible, so here's the link:
http://imgur.com/nMF88dQ

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

Maybe your sprain hasn't healed fully yet and you should stop playing for a while [unless you can play lefty].

 

[styksnstryngs]

Maybe your sprain hasn't healed fully yet and you should stop playing for a while [unless you can play lefty].

X-ray and MRI shows it's healed, and the wrist injury was a little lower down. During my recovery, I never felt pain this high until I rushed a forehand and mishit it.

 

[samarai]

that muscle is the thenar muscle for thumb. it basically flexes the thumb, if its turning purple then it probably hasnt healed and hurts when u try to grip something. rest it. obviously u dont have any fractures evident by the radiographic studies.

 

[Pete Player]

Sounds like a skiers thumb or alike. While spraying the wrist it has hit the thumb too some.

More severe cases you wouldn’t be able to lift a milk tetra. It takes really long time to heal, if you’d catch it skiing.

Caused by the reflex of opening your fist to slow down the falling palm first. Except the strap woun’t let the pole go off the hand and it is left in between twisting and hitting the thumb flexors.


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[S&V-not_dead_yet]

Sounds like a skiers thumb or alike. While spraying the wrist it has hit the thumb too some.

More severe cases you wouldn’t be able to lift a milk tetra. It takes really long time to heal, if you’d catch it skiing.

What the heck is a "milk tetra"?

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

X-ray and MRI shows it's healed, and the wrist injury was a little lower down. During my recovery, I never felt pain this high until I rushed a forehand and mishit it.

Essentially, you're saying "It hurts when I do this." The doctor's response will be "Then don't do that."

Pain is your body's way of saying "Don't do that."

 

[Pete Player]

What the heck is a "milk tetra"?

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[Chas Tennis]

What tissue of yours was injured? When I look up 'sprain' it is a ligament injury. If a Dr diagnosed sprain, what is the healing time for a sprain? Research the healing time of injured tissues. Tendons have a long healing time to get up to their best healed strength. They go through several stages in healing.

CharlieFedererer used to post very informative healing timelines that showed time vs strength. Since tennis often caused the injury in the first place and tennis strokes focus stress on the same location of the original injury, going back to tennis too early could be especially bad. Was your injury related to tennis? You injured yourself 6 weeks ago at Thanksgiving. I don't know the healing time for ligaments but for tendons I think 3 months is a very minimal time and I don't believe that the strength was that good at 3 months. Get advice from a well qualified Dr on what to do and when.

I had shoulder surgery March 29, 2017 to repair a full thickness, small tear of the supraspinatus tendon. The first 6 months of physical therapy were low stress to restore the range of motion of the shoulder joint while healing. At 6 months after surgery, strength training begins. Back slowly to normal begins after the nominal 'surgery recovery time' of 9 months, in Dec 2017. The healed tendon tissue is a scar tissue and is not as strong as the tendon tissue before the injury.

I played platform tennis twice about 2 weeks after the original injury. I decided it was not right and stopped playing. I believe that by playing I risked tearing the undiagnosed tendon tear farther.

The Health and Fitness Forum is more likely to have similar threads on thumb injuries.