What We Treat

Elbow, wrist and hand pain treatment in Las Vegas.

Your grip giving out on a jar lid you used to open without thinking. It is fixable, and it starts with a cause-first evaluation, not a guess.

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Sound Familiar?

Does this sound like you?

  • Pain on the outside of the elbow when you grip anything
  • Numbness or tingling in your fingers that wakes you at night
  • Dropping things because your grip lets go without warning
  • A wrist that aches by Wednesday every week you type a lot
  • Thumb pain lifting a kettle or a child
  • Switching hands to carry a shopping bag without thinking

Two or more? Keep reading.

Why It Happens

Elbow, wrist and hand pain is a symptom. Something causes it.

Pain in the elbow, wrist or hand is rarely about the joint alone. It’s usually some mix of a few things: tendons irritated by repetitive gripping, typing or lifting. A nerve getting compressed somewhere along its path, from the neck down to the wrist. Grip and forearm strength that’s quietly weakened. And the ergonomics of how you actually use your hands all day, which keep reloading the same irritated tissue before it heals.

None of that shows up on a quick glance. It takes a real, cause-first evaluation to sort out which one is actually driving your pain. That’s why rest, ice, or a generic stretching sheet so often falls short: they treat the symptom, not the source. Find the real cause, and the fix gets obvious.

Physical therapist assessing a patient's elbow, wrist and hand movement and mobility

The Honest Truth

Waiting on your hand doesn’t make it wait on you.

If you keep waiting

  • Grip strength keeps fading, and you start dropping things without warning
  • Numbness and tingling creep further and start showing up at night
  • You quietly stop doing the things that need a strong, steady grip

If you start this week

  • You know the actual cause by the end of visit one
  • Hands-on relief starts before you leave the building
  • You get a plan with an endpoint: a real one, not an open tab of visits

Nobody regrets starting too early. Every week, someone in our clinic says they regret waiting.

How We Fix It

Built for your elbow, wrist and hand.

Every plan has an endpoint. Here’s what the four phases look like for an elbow, wrist and hand.

Weeks 1–2

Pain

Calm the pain down.

Hands-on techniques calm the irritated nerve and take the edge off inflammation, starting your very first visit.

Weeks 2–6

Prime

Get your motion back.

Targeted mobility work restores motion in the stiff segments that have been quietly guarding the injury.

Weeks 6–10

Perform

Make it strong enough to trust.

Progressive core and hip strengthening builds the stability your spine was missing in the first place.

Weeks 10+

Prevent

Return better than before.

Lifting, bending, and twisting mechanics get tested under real load before you’re cleared to go all-in: that’s the endpoint, not just another appointment.

Grip and control come back the same way strength anywhere else does: the right load, in the right order.

— Steve Edwards, Owner, Achieve Physical Therapy

Related Conditions

Pain rarely stays in one place.

Compensation patterns often show up nearby. Here’s what else we treat.

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Joint Pain

More than one joint aching, and no clear reason why.

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Neck Pain

That 3pm headache that starts in your neck and ends your afternoon.

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Work Injuries

An injury report filed and nothing moving since.

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Questions, Answered

What people ask before booking for elbow, wrist and hand pain.

Usually not, and it’s rarely the first step. Most elbow, wrist & hand pain improves without imaging, and studies consistently find disc bulges and “wear and tear” on MRIs of people who have zero pain at all, so a scan doesn’t always point to the real cause. We start with a hands-on evaluation to find what’s actually driving your symptoms, and if imaging ever becomes genuinely necessary, we’ll help you get it. You don’t have to wait on a scan to start feeling better.

Yes, in most cases movement helps more than rest does. Full immobilization often lets the surrounding muscles weaken further, which sets up the next flare-up. The key is dosing the right movement for your specific elbow, wrist or hand, which is exactly what your physical therapist sorts out at your evaluation, then progresses safely as you improve.

Most patients feel meaningful change within 4–6 visits. A full plan for elbow, wrist & hand pain runs through all four phases, Pain, Prime, Perform, and Prevent, typically over 8–10 weeks, depending on how long you’ve been dealing with it. Either way, you get a plan with an endpoint: you’ll always know which phase you’re in and what’s left, not an open-ended string of appointments.

Book Your Visit

Ready when you are.

Request a time and a real person calls you back, usually within two business hours. No phone tree. No ‘someone will reach out.’ Just a plan.

  • Hours Mon to Thu 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Fri 7:00 AM to 12:00 PM
  • (702) 876-9737 Rainbow Blvd (702) 560-3660 Peak Drive Prefer to talk now? Call us.
  • Same-week appointments available

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