Working from home during the pandemic has not only led people to experience aches in the back, neck, bones and joints, but strain in their hands too. Prachi Kelkar, an advertising professional with a demanding work schedule that required her to type for hours on end, has dealt with a tendon injury for the last few years. “Typing and mobile usage was the immediate cause for me. The build up was from eight hours of working on spreadsheets, followed by holding my phone in position while watching movies on it,” says the 32-year old. During the lockdown, because of increased gadget usage and errands around the house, she suffered a relapse. 

“A wrist or hand strain can be termed as stretching or tearing of fibres in the muscles or tendons, the tissue that tends to anchor one’s muscle to the bone. Strains can be seen in tendons that connect the muscles of the forearm to bones in one’s fingers. Not only adults, but even children are encountering this problem,” explains Dr Girish L Bhalerao, joint replacement surgeon and sports medicine specialist at Wockhardt Hospital.