Yeah..do what pity said.
I would, for now, stick to the risk circles and basically just moving the wrists pre-workout but simple replace the "stretching" with the tennis ball work. And that is basically what self myofascial release is. You can use your own hands, also, of course. It's a bit more than just a massage, though, and would be more like poor man's deep tissue work..like ART (active release therapy).
The problem with stretching is that it sometimes can do more harm than good.
I'll try to put it in really simple terms. If you have a lot of knots and adhesions and scar tissue in the fasica, etc...stretching can just make that worse..make the soft-tissue problem worse.
Look at it this way. Tie a rubber band in a not. What happens to that not if you then "stretch" the rubber band? Does it relax, loosen, and go away? Of course not. It tigtens, right? Well you can think of these soft tissue restrictions the same way when your stretch the muscle.
Given the stretching may feel good when your doing it or may make you pain temporarily better but it is dong more harm in the long run.
I don't know that stretching, in this case is the wrong thing to do BUT I feel very confident that the SMR will work better and not hurt you. If you can improve soft tissue quality you may see a lot of relief.
The welding makes sense. I have a trainee whose a painter with similar problems and we are going to do SMR on his forearms and wrists and just mobilization for the wrists.
There are some posts and links somewhere on the forum about SMR that I will post up when I find them or if not, I'm sure Pity will.
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