Hand and wrist health
Esports Healthcare
Protecting your most valuable tools
For the majority of gamers—whether PC, console, or mobile—your hands are your tools, and we want to help you protect them.
Gamer Essentials
Hand and wrist health resources
Gamer stretches
Following any session, our gamer stretches help protect your muscles and joints from injury.
Injury prevention
This program is designed to reduce injuries to the forearms, wrists, hands, and fingers.
Further Reading
Additional resources
Tendinopathy: the #1 career killer
Beyond eye strain and various postural issues, tendinopathy is among the most common ailments in gaming and esports.
Claw grip risks
If you are a console gamer who uses the claw grip for controller, this post will teach you how to protect your hand from pain and injury.
Improve dexterity
This program includes drills to improve to coordination and dexterity of your hands and fingers.
From Our Library
Common ailments of the hand and wrist
Mouse elbow
This ailment is an overuse tendinopathy at the elbow; however, the muscles involved control and can affect the wrist, hand, and fingers.
Gamer’s thumb
An overuse tenosynovitis (inflammation of the tendon sheaths) that can cause significant pain and dysfunction of the thumb and thumb-side of the wrist.
Cubital tunnel syndrome
Although the nerve impingement occurs at the elbow, common symptoms include numbness, tingling, and weakness in the pinky finger, ring finger, and pinky side the hand.
Medial epicondylosis
This ailment is an overuse tendinopathy at the elbow; however, the muscles involved control and can affect the wrist, hand, and fingers.
Thoracic outlet syndrome
Although the nerve or artery impingement occurs at the shoulder level, common symptoms include pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness of any part of the arm including the wrist, hand, and fingers.
Carpal tunnel syndrome
An impingement of the median nerve—carpal tunnel syndrome will affect the thumb, index, and middle finger along with the same region of the hand and wrist on the palm side.
Our physical health providers
Corey J. Csakai, DC
Jordon Centofanti, DC
Daniel Carlin, DC
Jessica A. Hardy, ND
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If you’re experiencing an injury, aches, or pains, our physical health care team can help figure out what’s wrong and give you advice on how to correct your problem(s).
Please note, we will do our best to accommodate you and set up an appointment; however, we may not be able to take every appointment for which there is a request.