How many of you have

General Knitting
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Oh, I thought you meant it was like a heating pad for your wrists. :blush: On knitty.com they have a pattern for wrist warmers is this what you meant???

http://www.knitty.com/issuewinter02/PATTvoodoo.html

Does it help the top of your hand and fingers too???

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Yeap, thatā€™s more or less how it goes. Follow that pattern, but add extra rows/inches until you reach the elbow.
Keeping the joints of your arm and hand warm helps reduce the pain.

It should help the top of your hand.

For finger pain, I donā€™t have much in the way of advice. The pain in mine comes from a mixture of typing too much, crocheting too much and too much martial arts.

I suggest you knit in short periods during the day. Do other things in between.

Do you do your dishes with warm/hot water? I find it relaxing for the joints in my hand to sink them in warm/hot water. And since I have to do the dishes anwyay, I used it as a king of ā€œmini hand massageā€ (yeah, I know itā€™s nuts).

I also know that one exercise to add strength to the fingers when youā€™re doing martial arts (or massage therapy, works for both, hehe) is rice.
I keep mine in a large tub, because I eat a lot of it, so itā€™s easier to do this. Grab a handful of rice and squeeze lightly. Release the handful, repeat. Do a few repeats with each hand. Some people do it with cooked rice, but thatā€™s too much of a waste for me.

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My left wrist is ALWAYS numb and tingly from knitting, spinning, computers, piano and organ. Iā€™m always using my hands, so it never gets a rest. My right arm has no trouble at all though. Weird.

If I canā€™t stand the pain anymore, Iā€™ll take Tylenol Arthritis Pain or Ibuprofen, and wear my HANDEZE support gloves.

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I have had this sooo many times that it isnā€™t funny! I also have a ā€œdiseaseā€ in my hand that is called severs ( I have no clue how to spell it) that makes my bones grown faster then my tendons, so they stretch out. This is really painful, and still, I just canā€™t make myself put down the needles. My mom tells me that doing this is going to make some major problems for me later, but do i listen? NOPE!