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Originally Posted by Jimmyz123
Anyone else ever have anything like this?
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Sure have... Think of this in mechanical terms.
When you paddle a long time your working joints muscles etc... Since your wrists and hands are the are right at the paddle they are getting constant stress and torque put on them. It's like the ball joint at an end of a drive shaft. All the energy you are creating through your shoulders is going right through your wrists.
Hours of paddling, if it's not something you do all the time is going to make you sore, and your wrists are likely places to get irritation or pain.
Just like your shoulder muscles apply force to drive you foreward the small muscles in the wrist and arm control the position of your wrists and hands, and how the distribute that force to the paddle. Those muscles can get tired and change the way your holding the paddle without you even thinking about it.
Next time try varying your grip and where your hands are on the paddle.
Sometimes I've found my wrist is hurting and realized that I'm holding the paddle closer to the end with that hand, or that I'm just pushing to hard and gripping the paddle too tight.
Altering your grip will slightly change how your paddle stroke is putting tension and energy from you shoulders through your wrist. They idea is you want a relaxed grip that doesn't add stress, but that applies the torque to the paddle in a fluid steady motion.
Ultimately when I get pain I just think I need to paddle more. From back pain to shoulder pain to pretty much anything involved muscles controll the alignment of joints bones etc... the stronger the muslces are the more likely things will have the propper alignment under load.
Unless your doing something that is actually causing a repetitive injury these type of things will disappear as you paddle more and strengthen the muscles involved.
Jim