sore wrist?

[wickedfairy]

Have managed to hurt my wrist, think it was when doing plank/down dog. Do your wrists get more used to weight bearing or was I in the wrong position?

In down dog, should my wrists be under my shoulders of further forward? Thanks for any advice!

First of all, no more yoga for you until your wrist is better. This is important. Don't force it until the injury heals.

Your wrists will be under your shoulders in plank but then will remain further forward as you push back to downward dog.

Does this help?

Hi Cote, thank you for the advice! Yes, it helps - I think my placement has been correct from your explanation, I must just not be used to weight bearing.

Will lay off those poses, or use firearms until it heals - thanks again!

Ha! *forearms. Firearms would be against the ethos of yoga

Please don't use firearms during yoga practice

yogajournal has some articles on this topic....

Here and I am sure there were more on this website.

Looks interesting

Thank you Cece - they are very informative!

Great links, thank you cece

This is a useful diagram

As a yoga teacher, for sensitive wrists for certain poses it can also be beneficial to bring your hands just slightly further forward of your shoulders (this decreases the angle at the wrists) also practise a lot coming high on the heels of the hands (onto the finger mounds) as usually the weight will just go straight down into the heel of the hand and straight onto the carpal tunnel. So practise weight baring less into the heels of the hands and dispersing weight more evenly. Also you can do half plank (knees to the floor) takes some of the weight out the wrists :)