Tennis Wrist Pain Thumb Side. Wrist pain can be a common occurrence in tennis players, both amateur and professional. A wrist tendinopathy is an overuse injury of one of the tendons around the wrist.
The pain can be localized to the side of the wrist or in the palm, and it can present with a variety of symptoms ranging from clicking to pain. Usually it involves the extensor tendon, which is located at the ulnar side of the wrist (figure 1). The pain may get worse when you move your thumb or wrist.
Wrist pain can be a common occurrence in tennis players, both amateur and professional.
Ulnar wrist pain is pain on the side of your wrist opposite the thumb. A scaphoid fracture involves a bone on the thumb side of the wrist. The most common tennis injuries are tennis elbow, shoulder injuries, stress fractures, muscle strains, knee injuries, wrist strains and fractures, and back injuries. It causes pain on the thumb side of the wrist.