Your scaphoid bone is on the thumb side of your wrist. It’s often broken when you fall and catch yourself on an outstretched hand. A scaphoid fracture causes swelling, pain, and tenderness below ...

If your outer wrist feels sore and achy, you might chalk it up to arthritis. But that discomfort could be ulnar wrist pain, which affects the side of the wrist closest to the pinky finger.

Ulnar tunnel syndrome is pain ... wrist and can press on your ulnar nerve. But you can get it if you twist the joint a lot or do any type of motion with it over and over. A broken hamate bone ...