Eventually you get to the point where you won't be able to grip anything. Your ability to grip an object depends very much on the thumb — the thumb is the most powerful of the digits, so when movement of the thumb becomes painful you can't hold on to things.

Eventually you get to the point where you won't be able to grip anything. Your ability to grip an object depends very much on the thumb the thumb is the most powerful of the digits, so when movement of the thumb becomes painful you can't hold on to things.

Think about wearing a brace on your wrist when you go to bed -- not so tight that it stops blood flow, but braced flat, and that will help keep the hand in a straight position while you're asleep.

The first thing you need to do is to look at what you're doing with your hands, and how you're doing that. Are you using your hands in an awkward position, with the hands held upward or bending down or sideways in some way? Or, are you making movements fairly frequently and often quite forcefully?

Unless money is no object, I'd rather buy five $1,000 mattresses and change them every few years than buy one $5,000 mattress.

It's not going to be harmful, so why not? Providing they also ice it afterward, it should be pretty good.