Glenn

I was experienceing the exact same symptoms in my right wrist when I bent it to the right. I brought this to my Piano teacher's attention and he asked me to play a few pieces for him. He noticed immediately it was poor fingering technique caused by years and years of poor habits. He now has me doing drills to absolutely keep my hands parallel to the keyboard. DO NOT TORQUE YOUR HANDS/WRIST !!!!!

You must keep your wrists as quiet as possible and use proper positioning and fingering technique.

This with proper rest has cured my problem!!!!

Al

The secret to eliminating wrist pain is no secret at all. There have been several posts about this problem in the past, and the solution is quite simple.

First and foremost, your forearms should be parallel to the floor and your upper arms nearly vertical. The wrists should be nearly flat with the floor as well and the fingers should be curved as if you were holding a tennis ball. The same technique is used by secretarial staff that spend endless hours every day typing.

Naturally, in order to acheive this you will have to adjust your keyboard or sitting height appropriately.

The other thing that makes a big difference is not pounding on the keyboard's keys like a piano player. Not only is this hard on the joints of the hand and wrist, it's hard on the keyboard's rubber keypads. I couldn't count the number of people I've encountered that type lightly on a computer's keyboard, but pound the hell out of a synth's keys as if they're trying to imitate Jerry Lee Lewis. Lighten up and the pain mysteriously vanishes.

Good Luck,

Gary

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Travlin' Easy

Thanks everyone for all the good advice. I picked up a wrist brace last night and slept with it on. Seems to have helped, guess I normally have some hand movement, worse yet, twisting, when I'm sleeping. I'll probably follow most all advice and hopefully nip this thing in the bud.

Glenn