Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the minority leader, tripped and fell following the weekly Senate Republicans lunch on Tuesday, spraining his wrist and sustaining a small cut to his face, a spokesman said.

Mr. McConnell, who was examined by a medical team, “has been cleared to resume his schedule,” his office said.

After his fall, Mr. McConnell, 82, was able to walk by himself the short distance back to his office, senators who attended the meeting said. Senator John Thune of South Dakota, who will replace Mr. McConnell as leader in January, said that Mr. McConnell was “fine.”

The episode recalled one in March 2023, when Mr. McConnell fell during a private dinner and was left with a serious concussion. Mr. McConnell, who survived polio as a child and has long walked with an uneven gait, also experienced repeated freezing episodes in the Capitol that raised questions about his health and ability to do his job.

Early this year Mr. McConnell, the longest serving Senate leader in history, announced that he would be stepping down from his leadership post at the end of this Congress.

As he has prepared to relinquish the top post, Mr. McConnell has told colleagues that his impending exit has left him feeling “liberated.” And he has indicated that he will focus on issues that could put him at odds with Donald J. Trump on policy and personnel at the dawn of the president-elect’s second term.

Mr. McConnell, whose current term ends in 2027 and who has not said whether he will seek another, has said he plans to focus intently during the next two years on advancing his interventionist strain of foreign policy, which flies in the face of the president-elect’s “America First” approach. He also wants to concentrate on preserving the Senate’s institutional independence at a time when Mr. Trump, whose party will control both chambers of Congress and the presidency in January, has made clear that he means to bend the chamber to his will.