I can’t do press-ups in the traditional palms on floor position cos I can’t comfortably bend my wrists back that far. Anyone else have this problem?

Not that many years ago I could, then I developed what the doc thought was a ganglion deep in my wrist that showed up if I bent my wrist forwads. This seemed to stop my wrist bending backwards too – no worries, I waited for it to go which it eventually did after a long time. That was maybe.. I dunno.. 2 years ago ish. Mobility improved, but still wasn’t particularly comfortable. Now it bends forwards fine but still won’t bend back all the way and the other wrist is now the same.

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

yep, same problem as you , but had to have the one on my right wrist surgicly removed , bone graft & fused joint in hand , as the ganglion grew inward & was missed for many years.

Ooh, that sounds bad. It messed up your joint that bad? Original one was fairly obvious nearer the surface, but I think it was under some tendons or somethig. Surgery was not recommended at the time.

I’ll go to the doc’s again and see if I can get an X-ray.

molgrips – Member
I can’t do press-ups in the traditional palms on floor position cos I can’t comfortably bend my wrists back that far. Anyone else have this problem?

Not that many years ago I could, then I developed what the doc thought was a ganglion deep in my wrist that showed up if I bent my wrist forwads. This seemed to stop my wrist bending backwards too – no worries, I waited for it to go which it eventually did after a long time. That was maybe.. I dunno.. 2 years ago ish. Mobility improved, but still wasn’t particularly comfortable. Now it bends forwards fine but still won’t bend back all the way and the other wrist is now the same.

Does that sound familiar to anyone?

foxman – Member
yep, same problem as you , but had to have the one on my right wrist surgicly removed , bone graft & fused joint in hand , as the ganglion grew inward & was missed for many years.

Do you live in the same village?? 😯 😉

Not sure the x-ray will help , I had multible x- rays on my wrist due to many bike falls (pain & lack of grip/strength) , eventually after seing a specialist & a ct scan all became aparrent .

No wrist-help here, but do the press-ups with clenched fist?

What are you doing that is straining your wrist so much?

What are you doing that is straining your wrist so much?

Using them every day (technical/mechanical/manual based job)

foxman – Member
Using them every day (technical/mechanical/manual based job)

really!! did you get the video from the other thread? out of africa or something like that

Same problem, never been to the docs about it though… As far as I can remember they’ve always been like that!

No wrist-help here, but do the press-ups with clenched fist?

I do but that doesn’t really solve the problem does it?

In fact, it may be that they have just become inflexible because I stopped doing them palm down.

I’ve got inflexbile wrists too (have to do press-ups on clenched fists), but from fracturing my scaphoid and having it in a cast for 6 months a couple years back.

Had physio for a bit but didn’t seem to do a huge amount..