Wrist Pain Treatment Tucson

Wrist pain can make your simple daily activities difficult. Whether it’s typing, driving, or carrying your groceries, any discomfort in your wrist can affect your quality of life. Our Arizona Chiropractic and Spine Rehabilitation clinic offers customized wrist pain treatment in Tucson. Dr. Heaton tackles not the symptoms but the real cause of your wrist pain.

Nerves control your wrist and hand. They originate in your neck and arm. Hence, if there are misalignments in your spine, they can easily irritate these nerves. The symptoms may appear in your wrist. This is the reason your wrist pain needs to be evaluated first to find out the real cause and obtain the best permanent solution for it.

What is Causing Your Wrist Pain?

The usual suspect is carpal tunnel syndrome. It’s a common condition that affects the nerve in your wrist. When it’s squeezed, it causes numbness, tingling, and pain. If you spend a lot of time on computers or you do repetitive hand motions as part of your work, then this condition is common.

Another suspect is tendinitis. It’s an inflammation of the tendons in your wrist as a result of overuse. If you do repetitive movements all day, you’re prone to this type of wrist pain. Then, there’s arthritis. It can be osteoarthritis or the wear-and-tear kind. It can also be rheumatoid arthritis or the autoimmune type. Or maybe you just sprained your wrist from catching yourself during a fall. This is a plain old injury.

But your wrist pain might also be caused by a misalignment in your cervical spine. It’s sometimes called an atlas or axis subluxation. This can put pressure on the nerves that travel to your wrists and hands.

All of these causes can be treated at the Arizona Chiropractic and Spine Rehabilitation clinic.

When Should You Visit Our Chiropractor?

Ordinary wrist pain would go away on its own. But there are types of wrist pain that persist and require professional help. Here are some symptoms that prompt you to seek chiropractic treatment:

• Numbness or tingling in your hand or fingers
• Weakness in your hands that makes you drop things
• Swelling or deformity
• Reduced range of motion in the wrist
• Unable to move your wrist. This can indicate a nerve compression.

How Our Chiropractor Treats Wrist Pain?

Dr. Heaton focuses on the real cause of the problem. To get to the root, Dr. Heaton will evaluate not just your wrist, but also your elbow, shoulder, and cervical spine. This will help them build a complete picture of your symptoms. The best relief for your wrist pain requires treatment for your wrist and other related areas.

The most common treatment is cervical spine adjustment. However, your personalized care plan may also include the following treatments:

• Wrist and joint adjustments to restore your wrist mobility
• Soft tissue therapy to release any tension in the surrounding muscles
• Cold laser therapy to alleviate inflammation
• Electrical muscle stimulation to improve blood circulation, thereby easing the pain.
• Ergonomic guidance to prevent pain from recurring

Get the Right Treatment with No Drugs and Surgery

Your wrist pain may be severe enough to warrant chiropractic treatment. If you don’t get treated, you may develop chronic nerve damage or dysfunction that becomes difficult to treat.

Many of our patients in Tucson have avoided surgery after getting chiropractic treatments. You, too, can avoid surgery by scheduling an appointment with Dr. Heaton. He can provide you with an individualized plan, so you can avoid expensive medical intervention. Call us at (520) 600-3300 to start your consultation.