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Oct 4, 2024 · It’s okay to admit that you’re hurt. Don’t push your feelings aside or pretend everything is fine. Whether you feel angry, sad, or confused, let yourself feel those emotions. You don’t have to have it all together immediately—acknowledging your pain is the first step toward moving forward. 3. Talk About It—When You’re Ready
- Jack Nollan
- Stay calm. Take some time to collect your thoughts and get your emotions under control before you own the mistake. If you try to address it immediately, there’s a good chance that you’ll fire back with anger or defensiveness that will make the problem worse.
- Reflect on the situation. Once you’re calm, consider the circumstances and factors that led to your mistake. Why did the situation happen? What could you have done differently to change the outcome?
- Acknowledge the mistake directly. Do not beat around the bush. Do not avoid addressing the problem directly. Clearly admit that you were wrong and what your mistake was.
- Choose the right time and place. Private matters and problems that you have with other people are best aired in private. So, find an appropriate setting to discuss the mistake, preferably somewhere private where you can both speak freely.
Mar 1, 2024 · Understanding Hand Contusions. A hand contusion is what doctors call a bruise. It happens when small blood vessels under the skin break. This can be due to a bump, fall, or hit. Most of the time, we get these bruises from everyday accidents. For example, you might slam your hand in a door or knock it against a table.
- Overview
- 1. Arthritis
- 2. Carpal tunnel syndrome
- 3. De Quervain’s tenosynovitis
- 4. Ganglion cysts
- 5. Gout
- 6. Lupus
- 7. Peripheral neuropathy
- 8. Raynaud’s phenomenon
- 9. Stenosing tenosynovitis
Hand pain can result from injury, arthritis, and other health conditions, including autoimmune disease.
The human hands are complex and delicate structures that contain 27 bones. The muscles and joints in the hand allow for strong, precise, and dexterous movements, but they are vulnerable to injury.
There are many different causes and types of hand pain. Hand pain can originate in different parts of the complex skeletal structure, including the:
•bones
•joints
•connective tissues
Arthritis (the inflammation of one or more joints) is the leading cause of hand pain. It can occur anywhere in the body but is particularly common in the hands and wrist. There are more than 100 different types of arthritis, but the most common are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoarthritis typically affects older adults. Over the years, joints in the hands experience a lot of wear and tear. Articular cartilage is a slippery tissue that covers the ends of bones, allowing joints to move smoothly. As it gradually decreases, painful symptoms may begin to appear.
Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease that can affect many parts of the body. It causes the joints to become inflamed, which leads to pain and stiffness. It often begins in the hands or feet, affecting the same joints on both sides of your body. Learn how to naturally relieve arthritis pain.
Arthritis symptoms include:
•dull or burning pain in joints of fingers or wrist
•pain after overuse (such as heavy gripping or repetitive motion)
The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway of ligament and bone located at the base of your hand. It contains the median nerve (a nerve running from your forearm to the palm of your hand) and the tendons responsible for moving your fingers.
Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when the median nerve gets squeezed by a narrowing carpal tunnel. This narrowing can be caused by the thickening of irritated tendons, inflammation, or anything that might cause swelling in this area.
Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome begin gradually and can reach varying degrees of severity. Symptoms include frequent burning, tingling, or itching numbness in the palm of the hand and the fingers. Pain is often felt around the thumb, index finger, and middle finger.
Other carpal tunnel symptoms include:
•feeling like fingers are swollen even when no swelling is present
•pain during the night
De Quervain’s tenosynovitis is a painful condition affecting the tendons around your thumb. Swelling in the two tendons around the base of your thumb causes the area around your tendons to become inflamed. This inflammation puts pressure on nearby nerves, causing pain and numbness around the base of your thumb.
Other symptoms of de Quervain’s tenosynovitis include:
•pain around the thumb-side of your wrist
•swelling near the base of your thumb
•trouble grasping something or making a pinching motion
•a sticking or popping feeling when moving your thumb
Ganglion cysts of the wrist and hand are not typically painful, but they can be unsightly. They most often appear as a large mass or lump coming out of the back of the wrist. They can also appear in varying sizes on the underside of the wrist, the end joint of the finger, or the base of the finger.
These cysts are filled with fluid and can quickly appear, disappear, or change size. If your ganglion cyst becomes large enough to put pressure on nearby nerves, you may experience pain, tingling, or numbness around the wrist or hand.
Gout, which is a complex form of arthritis, is an extremely painful condition that can affect anyone. People with gout experience sudden, severe attacks of pain in their joints. Gout most often affects the joint at the base of the big toe, but it can occur anywhere in the feet, knees, hands, and wrists.
If you have gout in your hands or wrists, you’ll experience intense attacks of pain, burning, redness, and tenderness. Gout often wakes people in the night. You may feel like your hand is on fire. The weight of a bed sheet can feel intolerable.
Lupus is an autoimmune disease, which means your immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells and damages healthy tissue. Joint pain and stiffness are often the first signs of lupus.
When lupus flares, there is inflammation throughout the body. This inflammation causes a thin lining around the joints to thicken, leading to pain and swelling in the hands, wrists, and feet.
Other symptoms of lupus include:
•muscle pain
•an unexplained fever
•red rashes, often on the face
Peripheral neuropathy is a condition that causes numbness, pain, and weakness in your hands and feet. Peripheral neuropathy in your hands occurs when your peripheral nerves are damaged.
There are a number of things that can cause peripheral nerve damage, including diabetes, traumatic injuries, infections, and metabolic problems.
Peripheral neuropathy can affect one nerve or many different nerves throughout the body. Your hands and wrists have different types of nerves, including sensory nerves that feel things like touch, temperature, and pain, and motor nerves that control muscle movement.
The type and location of your neuropathic pain will depend on which nerves are affected.
Common symptoms of peripheral neuropathy include:
•numbness, prickling, or tingling in your feet or hands that comes on gradually
Raynaud’s phenomenon, also known as Raynaud’s disease, causes certain areas (particularly the fingers and toes) to become numb and cold when you’re stressed or exposed to cold temperatures.
When you get cold, it’s normal for your body to save heat by slowing the supply of blood to the skin. It achieves this by narrowing the blood vessels.
For people with Raynaud’s, the body’s reaction to cold or stress is more intense. Blood vessels in the hands can narrow much faster and tighter than normal.
The symptoms of a Raynaud’s attack might include:
•cold fingers and toes
•fingers and toes changing colors (red, white, blue)
Trigger finger, also known as stenosing tenosynovitis, is a painful condition that occurs when your finger or thumb gets stuck in a bent position.
When you move your fingers, your tendons slide through tunnels called tendon sheaths. When these tunnels swell, the tendon can no longer slide through, and it gets stuck.
If you have trigger finger, you may feel a tender bump and heat on the top of your palm, at the base of your finger, where the tendon sheath is located. Other symptoms include:
•a popping or snapping feeling as you straighten and bend your finger
•one or more fingers stuck in a bent position
•stiffness and inability to straighten your finger in the morning
- Jack Nollan
- Ego protection. The concept of ego refers to a person’s sense of self-importance and self-esteem. Admitting you’re wrong may be perceived as a threat to your identity and self-worth.
- Fear of judgment. Humans have a natural desire for social approval and acceptance. Unfortunately, this can get in the way of owning up to our mistakes.
- Cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is the psychological discomfort that someone experiences when they have conflicting attitudes, values, beliefs, or behaviors.
- Confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is a phenomenon that involves the tendency to interpret, favor, and remember information that validates your preexisting beliefs or hypotheses.
Mar 28, 2021 · 6. Forgive. If you have made a mistake, and you have genuinely attempted to both acknowledge and learn from it, forgive yourself for what you have done. You are only human, after all. If someone ...
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Jun 27, 2024 · Trauma-related hand pain causes. Bruises, sprains, dislocations, and breaks occur when the hand and/or fingers are struck and damaged. Repetitive actions can lead to undue stress on the joints and muscles. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a product of repetitive hand motions.
