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    5 ways to help reduce your hand and arm pain after surgery
    • Jun 5, 2018
    • 3 min

    5 ways to help reduce your hand and arm pain after surgery

    Managing pain after surgery is important to maximise your movement, sensation and functional outcomes. Health Nest can help you manage your pain, but read some useful tips below of ways you can reduce your pain at home. These can make the difference between feeling comfortable after your surgery and wishing you never went near the surgeon in the first place! 1: Manage your swelling Swelling is a natural response by the body when it has received trauma, even elective trauma li
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    8 tips to prevent hand and wrist pain when gardening
    • Oct 20, 2017
    • 2 min

    8 tips to prevent hand and wrist pain when gardening

    For those that love gardening, it shouldn’t have to be a painful activity. Often, however, the onset of arthritis into our wrist, finger and thumb joints can create sharp pain during certain gardening activities such as weeding, or can result in an aching feeling even when you have finished gardening. How to prevent this? One of the best ways to prevent pain from arthritis is to adopt methods that protect the joints – that is doing things in a way that reduces the stress t
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