Pain in the palm below pinkie

[kramanat]

Hi, just completed the first 2 weeks in the driving range and I have a lot of pain in both my palms below the 2 pinkies.

Is this due to an incorrect hold or movement or grip?  Or is this something that happens initially and gets better as the muscles get used to the movement?

[mvmac]

Hi, just completed the first 2 weeks in the driving range and I have a lot of pain in both my palms below the 2 pinkies.

Is this due to an incorrect hold or movement or grip?  Or is this something that happens initially and gets better as the muscles get used to the movement?

Welcome to the site. The pain might be from your grip, check out this thread.

[kramanat]

Went through several youtube videos and think I did the grip and action right yesterday. Still no relief from the pain.

Maybe I am just exacerbating the existing pain with more golf....

It hurts like mad if I forget and shake hands with someone :)

[mvmac]

Went through several youtube videos and think I did the grip and action right yesterday. Still no relief from the pain.

Maybe I am just exacerbating the existing pain with more golf....

It hurts like mad if I forget and shake hands with someone :)

Did you check out the thread I shared?

This video may also help.

[kramanat]

Yes, I went through the sticky and I think my grip is right. Not able to see the video at work, will check it in the evening today.

[GangGreen]

I've had this before too, for me it seemed to be the constant impact of hitting off harder surface driving range mats, especially early season when it's cold and my wrist are already tight. 2 things seemed to work when I had flair ups, one is to take more time off between driving range sessions (body needs time to recover and constantly swinging is just going to aggrevate it) and second was to wear wrist bands for a few weeks while I practiced until the pain went away. Your situation may be totally different then mine so take it with a grain of salt, worst thing, though, is just to keep trying to swing through the pain. Again, just my opinion, but I've found when I try to do that I inevitably (and unknowingly) end up changing up my swing to compensate for the pain and before I know it my swing has gone to heck.

[kramanat]

Mike, thanks for that video - has a good set of relaxing palm exercises that I will try out.

I think I have identified the reason for the pain. I did a step by step comparison of the end to end action starting from the grip. In one of the videos, there was mention that when the leading hand is parallel to the ground on the way back towards the ball, the club face (and actually the palm itself) should have an angle where it is almost vertical. I was swinging the club but was trying to maintain the club face constant.

I rotated the palm and could feel the tension in the area around the little finger just lift away.....you could try keeping the palm face down at this point in your swing and you will feel the pain!!

Hit about a 100 balls today and there is just the remnants of the pain from yesterday.....

[MrFlipper]

Did you check out the thread I shared?

This video may also help.

Hey mvmac thanks for this video. Been doing these exercises for a couple days, they really work well!

[mvmac]

Hey mvmac thanks for this video. Been doing these exercises for a couple days, they really work well!

Cool, Pat knows his stuff.