The palmaris longus is a muscle of your forearm that spans from your elbow into your inner hand.
If it is too tight or harbors trigger points, it can induce pain in the hand that feels like stitches.
Surely this is an aggravating condition, but there are good news.
With some simple self-massage you can relieve yourself from that pain in short time. All you have to do, is to learn to feel and then to massage the muscle.
On this page, you will receive all the information to do so. Just get started.
If you are only interested in practical applications and in getting rid of your pain, jump straight to the feel and massage part.
Otherwise, take yourself a minute and read this whole page. It will give you a deeper understanding on this muscle and why it might trouble you.
If trigger points in this muscle are present, they can cause pain in the inner hand and forearm.
Contrary to the deep tissue pain that is usually caused by trigger points, pain from this muscle has a prickling sensation.
The deeper the red in the picture, the more common it is to feel pain in the respective area if trigger points in this muscle are present.
If you have trigger points in this muscle, you might not only feel pain in your hand, but also soreness whenever you want to use it.
This means all the muscles’ functions, cupping the hand and bending it at the wrist, might be impaired and painful, respectively.
In order to free yourself from this pain and trigger points, learn to feel and then to massage the muscle.
Self-massage is really the best way to get rid of too much muscle tension and trigger points.