Do you experience pain in your wrists during exercises like pushups? Fortunately often times this pain can be emliminated by making a feW minor adjustments! Try a few tips from below to ease your wrist pain during exercise.
• Stretch: Tight wrist flexors can cause pain in your wrists. Stretch your wrist by placing your palm against the wall at shoulder height with your fingers pointed down. Hold this stretch for 30 seconds.
• Strengthen Your Wrist: Grab a pair of dumbbells and try wrist curls!
• Lessen the Angle of Your Wrist: Try placing a folded towel under your palms or try doing push-ups elevated on a bar to relieve the excess stress put on your wrist.
• Engage Muscles Throughout Your Body: Pushups are a total body exercise, make sure to be engaging your core and leg muscles simultaneously to relieve the pressure out on your wrists.
If these tips do not seem to help, reaching out to your physician might be your next step to ensure there is not a structural problem.