Carpal tunnel problems, elbow pain and why everything in your arm hurts. Episode 845

Wrist pliability is based on the entire upper extremity kinetic chain, which means when your wrist feels like it’s filled with broken glass, check the rest of the chain.

How about this?
✅ Grip strength of a stuffed animal?
✅ The last time your shoulders felt great, was when you were 7 years old?
✅ Your elbows make more noise than a cement mixer?

The carpals maintain a ‘sprung’ load to create a tunnel that allows tendons, nerves and blood vessels to pass through unobstructed through full range of motion. So when you’ve got the wrist extension of a cedar plank, you feed slack in further along the chain.
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The elbow loads and rotates into pronation forcing it out to allow for radial deviation at the wrist.
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When the shoulder rolls in, it drops down as well turning the Long head of the bicep tendon into a chew toy for a Yeti.
The elbow loses terminal extension forcing more load into the shoulder putting shear on the labrum and all the while, your wrist still moves like a pipe wrench and feels like it’s going through a lawnmower.
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The wrist is a terminal horsepower joint, so literally everything you do that involves movement, involves the wrist.
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So you can keep reinforcing that bad position every time you move, or you can spend 10 minutes reprogramming your system.
THE FIX:
1️⃣ Banded wrist extension
2️⃣ Banded elbow extension
3️⃣ Barbell bicep smash
4️⃣ Forearm/elbow voodoo
BOOM! Get to work! Smash you later!