What We Treat

Elbow, wrist and hand pain treatment in New Orleans.

The jolt when you grip something. A forearm that quits halfway through stirring a pot. A hand that goes numb overnight. A cause-first evaluation finds where it actually starts, which often isn’t where it hurts.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • Wincing when you grip a door handle, so you’ve started turning it with the other hand
  • Your forearm quitting on you halfway through stirring a pot
  • Carrying the gallon of milk with two hands, because one wrist can’t be trusted with it
  • Waking up with a numb hand and shaking it out to bring it back
  • Fingers stiff enough in the morning that it takes a while to make a proper fist
  • A grip that lets go without warning, so you stopped carrying a full cup across the room

Two or more? You’ve typed, gripped and lifted through this because the work doesn’t stop for it. That’s exactly why it’s still here, and exactly why you’re reading this.

Why It Happens

Elbow, Wrist & Hand Pain has a cause. We find it.

Your hands repeat the same few motions thousands of times a day, and tendons only tolerate that for so long. Four things drive most of what we see. Repetitive gripping, lifting and weight bearing through the wrists, until the tendons stay inflamed instead of recovering overnight. A setup that keeps your wrist bent or your elbow leaning on something hard for hours. A fall onto an outstretched hand, which can crack a small wrist bone that is genuinely easy to miss. And arthritic change in joints small enough that a little swelling costs you a lot of function.

Numbness and weakness are a different story. When a nerve is compressed somewhere along its path, at the neck, the elbow or the wrist, the symptoms turn up in your hand while the problem sits further upstream. That’s why rubbing the sore spot rarely changes anything, and why our evaluation checks the whole path, from the neck to the fingertips, before anybody treats a thing.

Clinician examining a patient’s forearm and wrist during an evaluation

The Honest Truth

Waiting doesn’t make elbow, wrist and hand pain wait on you.

If you keep waiting

  • The shoulder and neck start doing the arm’s work, and then more than one place hurts
  • Grip strength goes quietly, and you find out how much of your day depended on it
  • Numbness and weakness are harder to win back the longer they sit, which is the part of this genuinely worth not waiting on

If you start this week

  • You leave the evaluation knowing what we found and what the plan is
  • Treatment is hands-on and one-on-one with a licensed physical therapist
  • You get a plan with an endpoint, not an open tab of visits

Nobody regrets starting too early. Count how many things you now do with the other hand, then ask what another six months of that looks like.

How We Fix It

The same four phases. Built for your arm.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what our four-phase program looks like when the problem is your elbow, wrist or hand.

Where we start

Pain

Calm the pain down.

Manual therapy settles the irritated tendon at the elbow or wrist, and where it fits, dry needling releases the forearm muscles pulling on it.

Once the pain settles

Prime

Get your motion back.

Wrist, elbow and finger motion come back first. Where numbness or weakness points at a nerve, nerve conduction testing here tells us where along its path it’s being pinched, instead of guessing.

Once motion returns

Perform

Make it strong enough to trust.

Grip and forearm strength rebuilt in the positions you actually use: gripping, twisting, carrying, and typing through an afternoon without paying for it that night.

Before we sign off

Prevent

Return better than before.

Your workstation, how you grip, and how you add load back on, so the tendon stops getting reloaded before it has healed. That’s the endpoint.

When I first started I had numbness and loss of strength in my left arm. Besides being scary, it also had a huge effect on my life and daily routine. I’m so grateful for their help and all!

Janina S. · Numbness and lost strength in one arm

Then: your grip decided what you could pick up

Now: you decide what you pick up

Elbow, Wrist & Hand Pain Four phases

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

Compensation patterns often show up nearby. Here’s what else we treat.

1

Tendinitis

The tendon at the elbow or wrist that flares every time you use it hard.

Learn More 2

Shoulder Pain

Arm pain that turns out to be coming from the shoulder instead.

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Joint Pain

Small stiff joints where a little swelling costs a lot of function.

Learn More

Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for elbow, wrist and hand pain.

For most tendon pain, no, and waiting on a scan just delays the start. Two situations are different. If you fell onto an outstretched hand, a small wrist bone can be cracked without looking dramatic, and that needs ruling out. And if you have numbness or weakness rather than pain, nerve conduction testing tells us where along the nerve the trouble is. We can do that testing here, and we only order what would actually change your plan.

Rest alone rarely fixes a tendon, because the tendon got sore from being under-prepared for the load, not from being used at all. Stop using the arm and it gets weaker, then the same task hurts again the day you go back to it. Loading it correctly is the treatment. A licensed physical therapist works out which grips and motions to keep, which to modify for now, and how to add load back, then adjusts as the arm earns it.

We won’t put a number on it before we’ve looked at your arm, and anyone who does hasn’t looked. What you get instead is a plan with an endpoint. After the evaluation you’ll know what’s causing the pain, which of the four phases you’re starting in, Pain, Prime, Perform or Prevent, and what has to be true for you to be finished. You’ll always know where you are in that plan and what’s left, instead of booking appointments indefinitely.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back. No phone tree, no ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

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Three clinics. One phone number.

Westbank, Marigny, Elmwood. Whichever is closest, you get the same care and the same number to call.

Harvey (Westbank)

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