Are there activities that can put you at higher risk of developing hand or wrist arthritis?

There aren't really any specific aggravating activities or jobs. There are injuries, like I said, in wrist arthritis that can start the ball rolling toward arthritis. A small bone can get fractured in the wrist. If it doesn't go on to heal, it can lead to early arthritis. A certain ligament in the wrist that's pretty commonly torn, people think it's just a wrist sprain that changes how the wrist moves, it changes the biomechanics of the wrist. That can create some wear on the cartilage surfaces that leads to arthritis.