Two weeks ago, i experienced sharp pain somewhere between my wrist and hand on my bowling hand(right-handed). It only hurts when i release the ball. When my hand is in the cup position I feel no pain but when I uncup my hand and go up the back of the ball, I feel a very sharp pain somewhere in my hand and wrist. And on top of that, I put a muscle on my left side last week from sticking on the approach and leaning too far down and left a bad pull somewhere under my rib cage. I got muscle relaxer and pain pills but reaggrevated tonight while trying to make a ten pin. But the real issue is my hand, because i cant put anything on the ball without my hand/wrist hurting. Can anyone tell what could this be or have experience this problem?


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Edited on 12/28/2009 9:14 PM

I developed what the doctor said was a ganglion cist on my right wrist just infront of the wrist bone. When it swells it protrude out larger than the wrist bone...kinda looks like I have two wrist bones. While the cist isself does not hurt, the pressure the cist applies to the under lying tendons DOES and actually causes my ring and pinky finger to goto sleep. So I had it operated on as the Dr. was reluctant (being that the cist could have developed within the tendions (which is dangerous to be digging around in.) After the surgery the doctor proclaimed success however, it is back. Not nearly as big and now strangly shapped... but does not cause pain or loss of feeling. I hope you are not in the same situation.

I had something like this happen. The reason I figured out for myself was that when going from the cupped wrist to the release my tendons for my middle and ring fingers were going stretched to slack very quickly. I would suggest taking a few weeks off and seeing how it feels. If it continues as a problem I would suggest maybe less cupping of your wrist.
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I pretty much had same thing a few years back, of course really close to bowling state tourny where i couldn''t even hold the ball no more so much pain

It was a cyst as some 1 else said, other wise known as a Bible Cyst,

Mine was going side to side though instead of up like normal so it was putting pressure on nerves/tendons ect.. I actually once got a cortosone(sp) shot and it actually popped it or took away the problem for about a year and then came back.  They said they could do surgery however I was reluctant when said its possible to lose out on some of the strenght of that hand/wrist. So I asked whats the worst that can happen with leaving it there said have pain every so often take advil/tylenol/motron what ever your feast or famine may be and deal with it, it wont never cause no permant damage as they do pop and yes can grow back, heck said even after surgery they can grow back, which another person stated ?? heck then why have that surgery??? to help it out yes it makes me feel older then I am, when having problems I wear a good strong wrist brace from walgreens to drive in/sleep in ect.. not sure how this helps it but after a couple of days the pain usually starts going down and then gone, combination of that with the medicene i think.  

Hope this helps you and yes it sucks, I did try bowling with a wrist brace 1x with it acting up where I could hardly throw the ball and couldn''t do crap I think i shot like 502 or something, so I took a week off with doing the above said and came back fine was able to bowl state, some side tournies down there and ect with no problems, wasn''t as fresh as I wanted to be but better then not being able to bowl at all or bowling like dog poo

Also on a few drillings after that, i shortened my span like a 1/16th (i think) so just a smidge smidge smidge.. just a few things trying to help you out since I went thru it
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Edited on 12/29/2009 9:40 AM

Around a few months ago, I decided to channe my span once I decide to go with Vise It grip. My span went from 4-3/8 to 4-5/8. My span is really 4-11/16th but I can thrown whatever. Ill look into my span and see if that can be part of the problem.
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