Hey, I hear what you are saying. My 10 year old has had wrist pain since February and been on restricted activity since April. From April to the end of May she still did vault and tumbling with a tiger paw on her right hand, but then the doctor told her no weight on her wrists, period. Here we are now in mid-August with no improvements. We are going to see a hand surgeon at the end of this month for a 2nd opinion. The ortho doctor said he's confident it's an overuse injury that will get better with rest, but he said we could go see this other guy just to make sure there's nothing that he's missed.
Meanwhile, my daughter is going crazy to get back into the swing of things. She's been going to practice only 1-2 times per week and doing lots of conditioning, leaps, jumps, turns, etc. We only have 3 months to the first meet, so she of course is very frustrated that this is taking so long to heal. :gloomy:
She was told not to do any strengthening exercises until the pain goes away, but I've been kind of wondering if that's true or not.
Wow! That looks a lot like my story. I was reading this and I could really relate it to my problem. Here it goes,
I've had wrist pain for almost 1 year now. At the begining of last year, I woke up with this, strange pain in my wrist that no one (doctors) could tell me what it was. They told me all the possible things, sprain, moved bones, broken bone, overuse injury, torn ligament, and even a bone disease.
Once, I went to a physio, and he told me he could feel a little bump, which felt just like a ganglion (cyst). He sent me to see another doctor, who then told me that if you can't see the bump, then it's not a cyst.
So I went and saw another doctor, then another one, and then another one. And I went through almost all the test for the wrists, like an x-ray, a CT scan, and an MRI.
The MRI, was the only test that showed something, a cyst, but the doctor who sent me for this test, told my dad that this wasn't the problem, it couldn't be.
I was almost sure, from all my reasearch on the internet, that this was the cause of my wrist pain.
So we went to a plastic surgeon, and he finally made the diagnose that this cyst, was for sure the problem. So I lost my whole season because of this cyst, and I might loose this season too. But I'm so happy that someone finally told me what was the problem.
Now, I just need to find a surgeon who wants to get this thing out of me!!!