🐭 Small change | BIG impact 🐘
We've talked here before about a really miserable wrist tendinitis that's formally known as "De Quervain's Tenosynovitis."
I see it constantly in young parents who are carrying their kids everywhere, lifting them in and out of the crib/car, all while trying to keep the house afloat.
The problem is, to do all of these, we sort of 'cheat' lift with our wrists. Meaning we scoop the kid out of the crib by their armpits. This moves the wrist from ulnar deviation to radial deviation. This is the same side-to-side wrist movement you'll see if you wave to someone.
Problem is, our bodies weren't made to lift this way. When you do this, you engage the relatively tiny muscles on the thumb side of the wrist. What we should be engaging when we lift is our biceps...much higher in the arm and closer to our core stabilizers.
So what's the small change? For as many lifting activities as you can (again, think in/out of the crib, carrying heavy objects/people, or lifting a pot off the stove), turn those palms up and then lift.
Now when you lift, you'll be forced to engage your biceps, rather than relying on the little wrist muscles that easily get damaged, angry, and react with months of miserable tendinitis.
This tiny switch in how you lift can make a huge difference!
