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I have a calcium deposit on the top of my right hand...not quiet on my wrist, its about an inch from it. it hurts pretty bad when i jump, anyone got any ideas on how to get rid of it? besides putting my hand on a table and smashing it with a book? ( thats what everyone keeps telling me to do)

uh...are you sure it's not a tumor or something? Ive never heard of something like that caused by vaulting...

FlymetotheMoon21 wrote:I have a calcium deposit on the top of my right hand...not quiet on my wrist, its about an inch from it. it hurts pretty bad when i jump, anyone got any ideas on how to get rid of it? besides putting my hand on a table and smashing it with a book? ( thats what everyone keeps telling me to do)

Well if it IS a calcification......you will have it forever......dystrophic calcification occurs in injuried tissue...it forms a hardened calcified mass......it can not be reversed...

smashing it with a book would only hurt like hell and make it bigger.

BUTTTTTTTT.......calcification doesnt' cause pain.....inflammation is what causes internal pain....so if you can't figure out how it got inflammed, get a doctor to look at it...if you know it is from vaulting...then realize this...every time your pole hits tissue damage, it will hurt and it won't get better.

Who knew that my Pathology class would come in handy????

I finally run across someone with the same thing as me!

Mine started in college and I think it started from doing Cleans. If you do cleans, I suggest you stop catching the bar. For me, catching the bar causes a bone on the back edge of my hand to crash into the front edge of my Radius bone and has cause the calcification to form.

I doubt Vaulting has caused the problem for you, but, when you vault, the tendons on the back of your hand will roll over the bump and cause pain. If you get the inflamation under control, it might not hurt when you vault, so try icing it several times a day and maybe skip a couple of vault days to let it settle down.

Years ago, I went to a doctor to see about getting it removed. After hearing what would be involved, I decided I could live with it. It hasn't gotten any worse over the last ten years.

It might be a growth thing too. I have a calcium build up on my left knee just below the kneecap. Theres a name for the condition...like Osgood Schlauter Disease (but it isn't a disease) or something like that. Anyway, it is caused when your bone grows faster than your muscles, and the muscle and tendon streach and pull away from where it is attached to the bone. This causes irritaion, and the irritation causes the calcium to build up. It hurts for a while, until the calcuim deposit hardens and your body growth slows. This condition is apparently pretty common in teenage males, usualy durring a growth spirt. There arn't really any long-term complications to it, it's just annoying for a while.

So, I'm do doctor, but I bet if you rest it for a while, it will harden and the irritation will leave (icing may help irritation for now like others said)