Does this sound like your wrist & hand?
Maybe your hand goes numb driving, or you wake up shaking it out at 3am. Maybe opening a jar, turning a key, or picking up your coffee mug has a catch in it now. Maybe your thumb locks when you bend it, or a finger just... stays bent for a second.
Or you've done the brace, the splint, the cortisone shot, and it's back.
Hand and wrist pain often looks like:
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A dull ache or stiffness that doesn't quit
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Numbness or tingling in the fingers, especially at night
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Swelling in the wrist, knuckle, or base of the thumb
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Weak grip, or dropping things
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Pain making a fist, gripping, or twisting a doorknob
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A finger or thumb that catches or locks
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A soft lump on the back of the wrist
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Pain that keeps coming back
What may be causing your wrist & hand pain?
Carpal tunnel syndrome
The median nerve gets squeezed as it runs through the wrist. Numbness and tingling in the thumb, index, and middle fingers, often worse at night, are the giveaway.
Tendonitis
The tendons that move your fingers and wrist can get irritated from repetitive use, typing included. Pain with movement, sometimes swelling.
De Quervain's tenosynovitis
Irritated tendons on the thumb side of the wrist. Hurts to grip, pinch, or twist, and it's common in new parents from lifting a baby the same way over and over.
Trigger finger
A tendon catches as it slides through its sheath, so the finger locks bent and then pops straight. Can happen in more than one finger.
Hand and wrist arthritis
Cartilage wear at the base of the thumb or in the small joints of the hand. Stiffness, aching, and reduced grip are typical.
Ganglion cysts
A fluid-filled lump, usually on the back of the wrist. Sometimes painless, sometimes not.
Structural injury
Fractures, complete tendon ruptures, and significant instability belong with an orthopedic hand specialist, not a regenerative medicine clinic.
Where does regenerative medicine fit?
If you've already tried rest, physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medications, cortisone, or other conservative treatments, you may be wondering what comes next.
For some patients, regenerative medicine may be an option worth exploring.
Regenerative treatments use biologic therapies as part of an effort to support the biological environment within and around injured or degenerative tissue.
But there's an important distinction: Regenerative medicine isn't one treatment.
PRP isn't the same as an exosome product. Exosomes aren't stem cells. Cellular products aren't all the same.
And the right approach depends on what we're actually treating.
The question isn't “Which injection should I get?”
It's “What's causing my pain, and what treatment makes sense for it?”
WHY NEOWELL REGEN
We don't have one wrist & hand injection.
We have treatment options.
At NeoWell Regen, we have access to several regenerative products and protocols. What we recommend depends on the condition we're treating, the degree of degeneration, your previous treatment history, overall health, and your goals.
That may include different biologic or cellular approaches depending on your individual case.
And sometimes our recommendation is not to treat you.
If your wrist & hand appears too structurally compromised, your condition falls outside what we believe regenerative treatment can reasonably address, or we believe you need a different type of specialist, we'll tell you.
Because the goal isn't to sell you an injection.
The goal is to help you make a better decision about your wrist & hand.
What treatment actually looks like
It starts with a conversation, not an injection.
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We understand the problem
We talk through your symptoms, diagnosis, previous treatments, imaging when available, health history, and importantly, what your knee is keeping you from doing.
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We determine candidacy
Not every patient is a regenerative medicine candidate. We look at the type and extent of joint damage and whether we believe treatment is reasonable for your particular situation.
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We build your treatment plan
If you're a candidate, we'll explain what we're recommending, what is being used, why we've selected it, the treatment sequence, cost, and what you can realistically expect.
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We follow your progress
Regenerative treatment isn't an overnight fix. Response occurs over time, and we follow your progress rather than treating the injection as the end of the relationship.
Do I have to have surgery?
Maybe not.
We also won't tell you regenerative medicine replaces every hand or wrist surgery. It doesn't.
A lot of people with tendon irritation or early arthritis still have enough healthy tissue to try a non-surgical option first. Advanced nerve compression or joint damage is a different story.
Surgery may be the better route when:
Carpal tunnel symptoms are severe or the nerve is losing function
A tendon is completely torn
There's a fracture or significant instability
Arthritis is advanced and joint structure is mostly gone
COMMON QUESTIONS
The question everyone asks
START HERE
Before you decide what to do with your wrist & hand, understand it.
You don't need another person promising you that one treatment fixes everything.
You need to know what your options are, which ones make sense for your wrist & hand, and what you can realistically expect.
That's what the consultation is for.