Hi, I would like to ask this to see if anyone has any suggestions.

As you may or may not know, I hurt my wrist a while back and it is slowly on the mend.

I played last week and whilst it hurt a little bit at the beginning of the night last week, it was generally OK after that.

However, a friend of mine suggested putting an extra overwrap on my grip (he thinks my grip is too small anyway) as the extra cushioning should help stop the pain in my wrist so much.

I tried this and my wrist felt even WORSE for it. I was expecting it to either be better or the same, so this was a bit of a surprise. I took the extra overwrap off for the last game of the night and it felt a bit better but it was hard to tell as my wrist was sore from before.

So, my question is, was putting an extra overwrap on my grip a bad thing? Smaller grips can cause injury but can too many grips do the same? Or did it hurt more as it was strengthening itself up? I know you have to rest and injury but then there comes a time where you have to let it hurt so that it will repair itself and make it stronger.

What’s people’s ideas on this? Should I put the overwrap back on for next week or leave it off? I know the rule of thumb is that your fingers should not touch your palm when you are holding a racket (but not tightly), but how much of a gap you should allow is debateable. I don’t have much of a gap, more like a hairline gap!

I know I didn’t have a problem with wrist injury from my grip before I hurt my wrist but I thought I could have extra grip to aid recovery now that I am injured. But then maybe it was worse from the light wrist exercises that I have been doing every night? *insert joke here*

One is confused right now

P.S Whilst there are other posts on the subject of grips, I don't think I have seen one that talks about what size to have as rule of thumb, but just about different grips you can get and that its all down to preference. I wanted to talk about the pro's and con's of over and under gripping