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Wrist pain after a year + of poleing?
First time poster, long time lurker. I've searched for other threads on this topic, but they were mostly by newbies or because pain in the lower hand of the reverse bracket grip.
I've been poling for a little over a year now, and on a fairly regular basis. I consider myself an intermediate-advanced student, and I also dance at a club. Recently I switched to a new club where I'm doing 6-8 stage sets a night and working 3 days a week, while I used to only do 3 sets, max, a night, once or twice a week.
While the conditioning is great, I'm starting to find that my wrist on my dominant arm is starting to hurt. I think it's probably due to the fact that I've been doing more spins in my routine because they take comparatively less energy to do than, say, inverts and aerial tricks.The wrist pain is not bad when it's in a neutral position, but it's sore and I feel a bit of cracking and hear a bit of clicking when I rotate it. It also pops a lot more whenever I bend my wrist laterally.
Anybody else experience this? I figure I have pretty good wrist strength – do you think it might be from overuse or does my wrist need further strengthening? Any useful remedies, like those wrist wraps that Amy wrote about recently? Or should I just stay off my wrist for a while and just do floorwork? 😛
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My wrists having been doing that a long time, long before I started pole. Do you do any stretching with them? I sit at a desk most of the day and do alot of typing, I try to roll mine out and stretch them often. It offers some relief but the clicking/popping noise doesnt go away. From what ive been told that its the fluid in your wrists that keep them mobile form bubbles and thats whats causing the popping noise.
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We can all give our experiences, but the best thing you can do is to get a doctors opinion. It could be anything froma wrist strain, tendonitis, stress fracture, etc. Depending on what it is will determine how it is treated. Now I have tendonitis in my left wrist, and after resting it for a week after irritating it, I do wrist exercises and stretching, but that may not be what you need to do as of yet. Dr.'s opinion all the way.
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I agree with sensual, above. You need to see a doctor. As fitness professionals, we are not trained to give medical advice. All I can recommend is to rest it, ice it and compress it. If it hurts, stop. See a doc soon before it gets worse. It’s harder to pole after recovering than if you take care of it before conditions worsen.
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Thanks everyone! I suspect it's overuse; I'm going to take it easy the next week and keep it wrapped, which helps a lot with the pain. If anything, it'll be a good excuse for me to practice all my tricks on my other side. At least until my other wrist gives out, ha! Thankfully I have a month off coming up soon…
@MemphisKitten – we do 3 song sets. Depending on the DJ, the length of the songs vary. The dayshift guy cuts them off at 3-3:30, but the night shift guys let the entire song play out. So I would estimate that my sets average around 10-12 minutes, generally?
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