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[ysobel]

So I get new Futuro wrist support things because the old ones are kind of worn out. Double- and triple-checked that I was ordering the L/XL, because my hands are not small.

They are significantly tighter -- possibly just because they are new? -- which makes them a bit harder to get on but my wrists are very very happy with the support.

On the other hand, they make my thumbs go numb.

After wearing them overnight, my hands are like this:



The red spots are, well, red spots; the grey strip is where it's numb.

(Pictured: a stolen-from-google-search clipart of a hand, with three red pressure spots -- at the thumb-side base of the hand right above the wrist, at the inside webbing between thumb and hand, and close to the index finger knuckle -- and a grey strip along the inside of the thumb from the tip down to the first knuckle.)

Somehow I think this is not good.

Comments

[synecdochic]

The numbness is from the pinch at the base of the thumb, almost certainly. How tightly do you cinch the straps? For the first month or so of wearing I always have to cinch the around-the-wrist strap with at least a finger's width of give in the strap or else I get the same thing going on.

I just replaced mine (also L/XL) and they were ridiculously tight on first wear as well, but they've already loosened up considerably.

[ysobel]

Ooh hmm, that ... yeah. The new ones are tighter enough that cinching them closed to the degree needed for the old ones probably made them too tight. And the webbing strip is stiffer and less flexible, so I also need to be careful that it doesn't get pulled as far down as possible, especially since I can't pull it looser.

I've switched back to the old one temporarily to give my left thumb a break, but I'll see how my right hand does with the looser+higher new one.

[synecdochic]

Yeah, I definitely find that the first few months of a new pair of braces, I have to be more careful on how I cinch them. Sometimes I barely do them up at all! But the hotspots you point out seem like they could be caused by too-tight straps (especially the topmost ones -- on a new pair I always wind up cinching them so they're barely around the edge of the hand at all.)