Beware! Lump around your wrist could signify red flags about your health that you should not ignore
Some people tend to overlook the bumps and bruises on their bodies, especially around wrists, thinking that these lumps are nothing to be worried about. But beware! These lumps could signify red flags about your health that you should not ignore!
It could be signs of a hygroma, a joint inflammation that forms a ball-shaped lump on your wrist. Filled with a liquid called synovium, this liquid allows the joints to move. As well as appearing on humans, hygromas also appear on animals, mainly dogs and are caused by and have the same symptoms as humans.
Hygroma generally occurs on the back of the fingers where the knuckle or joint is located.
Sometimes, it also occurs on the surface of the palm and around the base of the thumb
Some of the factors of hygroma are:
- Secondary injury (mostly seen among athletes)
- Injuries or inflammation of the joints or soft tissues around the wrist
- Excessive load on the wrist
- Genetic
- Degenerative joint disease
While in many cases, hygroma proves to be harmless and will disappear in a few days, some hygroma grow in size and start to pressure nearby blood vessels and nerve endings which can result in sharp pain, physical discomfort and numbness.
You might want to seek for doctor’s help if your hygroma co-occur with any of these symptoms:
- Unable to move and stretch your fingers or hand
- The skin around the lump turns into red and flaky
- Pain around the lump
- The area around the lump becomes sensitive to touch
- It is always best to seek for further treatment and doctor’s consultation if your lump persists with sharp and consistent pain.
If you have any or all of these symptoms, consult your doctor or GP who will be able to define more precisely whether it is or isn’t a hygroma. There are treatments available that can help you with a full recovery. However, leaving hygromas can lead to intense swelling so much so that the stress on the surrounding skin can lead to it becoming an open wound, and therefore more liable to infection.
Source:
gentside.co.uk, en.goodtimes.my
