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Thumb Tendonitis | DeQuervains Tendonitis

September 10th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

I have written some other articles on thumb tendonitis or De Quervains tendonitis in the past. You can follow the links above to find the articles.

I just found more information explaining tendonitis in thumb. There are some pics to explain exactly what is going on. Also you can find a pdf document explaining the article.

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Symptoms of Tendonitis in Thumb - DeQuervain’s Tendonitis

August 12th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

In this article you are going to learn how to diagnose if you are suffering from DeQuervain’s tendonitis.  You will also learn about various ways to treat your symptoms.

DeQuervain’s tendonitis is also well-known as DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis, DeQuervains syndrome, washerwoman’s tendonitis and DeQuervains disease.

De Quervain’s tendonitis is a painful condition characterized by pain and swelling on the thumb side of the wrist.  De Quervain’s tendonitis is a condition brought on by irritation or swelling of the tendons found along the thumb side of the wrist. 

This is representative of RSI tendonitis at the wrist which is some cases can be brought on by even texting on a phone.  De Quervain’s tendonitis, however, involves just the thumb tendon, which runs through a canal at the base of the thumb at the back of the hand.  Tendons are ropes of fibrous tissue that connect muscles to bones.

Who Can Get DeQuervain’s Tendonitis

Tendonitis in finger is recognized among musicians, typists, professional phone bank workers and assembly-line workers.  The recognized denominator between all of these workers (or play) involve very repetitive motion in the fingers, hands or arms.  Tendonitis in the wrist arises because of repetitive motion.

Symptoms of DeQuervain’s Tenosynovitis or Tendonitis of the Thumb

Some symptoms of DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis tendonitis may include the following:

1. Pain and tenderness along a tendon, usually in proximity to the thumb and/or wrist joints. 

2. Other symptoms of flexor tendinitis may include stiffness, weakness, numbness and pain in the upper extremity.

Pain Associated with De Quervain’s Tendonitis

Pain that occurs when grasping or pinching and tenderness over the wrist, are the most common symptoms of tendonitis of the thumb.  Another symptom is pain over the thumb-side of the wrist.

Sometimes Dequervain’s tendonitis is mistaken for arthritis.  They are the same in the sense that there is pain associated with each.

If you are having pain at the base of the thumb chances are this is DeQuervains’ tendonitis.

Treatment for De Quervains’s Tendonitis

The following are some of the treatments of DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis tendonitis.  The main goal of DeQuervain’s tenosynovitis treatment is to relieve the pain and to diminish inflammation. 

Splinting and Medications

Treatment consists of tendonitis physical therapy, stretching and strengthening exercises, splints, and injections.  Some of the inflammation can be treated with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as Motrin or Advil.  If you have a more serious case of finger tendonitis, you are going to have to treat this differently with more powerful medication or surgery. 

You probably haven’t thought of this one before.  You can use this idea to ice just about any injury including this one.  If you don’t have an ice pack you can use a frozen bag of pea’s from your local grocery store and place this ice pack on the thumb side of the wrist for 20 to 30 minutes.  Then allow the area to warm up again and use the ice pack as mentioned above.  This can help with the pain and swelling for the short term.  Check the following article on how to correctly ice an injury for more information.

In some extreme cases and as a last resort before surgery, cortisone injections may be administered directly into the effected tendon.  This can help with the pain and inflammation on a short term basis.  Due to the side effects of these injections

Surgery, Last Resort for De Quervain’s Tendonitis

In painful or recurring cases where self-care treatments and injections didn’t work, surgery can be done to open up the channel where the tendons pass from the thumb.  Surgery usually helps out four out of five people with this problem.  There still are draw back to this treatment also.  As many as one out of five people will have a new problem after surgery.  One problem is numbness on the back of the hand and another is tenderness of the scar.

De Quervain’s tendonitis is difficult to control and recover from.  But if treated early, the chance of success are better.  If left untreated and you continue to do the repetitive motions, these will be the times when the likely hood of success are diminished.

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Dequervains Tendonitis - Pain in Wrist

March 29th, 2007    Subscribe To Our Feed

Our hands are used for everything.  From typing to writing and all activities in between.  They’re constantly moving our wrists and our fingers.  Now our hands are flexible, they do get tired and sometimes have paid.  When you do get the pain in your wrist the best thing you can do is find a treatment and apply it to your wrist pain relief.  Wrist tendonitis which is known as dequervains tendonitis.  Here is how you can treat wrist tendonitis or dequervains tendonitis.

What can you do about Dequervains tendonitis?

Dequervains tendonitis occurs on the side of the wrist, where the tendon of your thumb runs through your forearm and occurs from moving the thumb vigorously.  You can bet that the kids today with text messaging are going to have some type of problem in the future.  That is all you see everywhere you go the kids using their thumbs to text message.  They will have to get dequervains tendonitis when they get a little older, don’t you think.

Which you’ll feel is a shooting pain in the thumb and forearm.  Not only to our children have a chance of getting this tendonitis and if you have an occupation that requires a lot of dexterity and you will most likely get dequervains tendonitis.  Remember that as we get older the tendons become less elastic and we are in position to get strain and sprains.  There are a couple of ways to treat this.

How to treat Dequervains tendonitis

Much like any other type of tendonitis, the patient, with at-home care, can treat dequervains tendonitis. Your doctor will recommend that you not use that wrist as much as possible, and that to apply ice to the swollen area every day for at least fifteen minutes. Also, it may help to wear a wrist splint or

 WRIST BRACE WITH SPLINT #4039 MED-LEFT

brace to help support both the thumb and wrist to prevent further injury. To help with the pain of the tendonitis, over the counter medicine such as ibuprofen and aspirin can help with dulling the pain. Cortisone shots can help in extreme cases, but the pain will most likely return after a few months.

The best way to treat dequervains tendonitis is with home treatments.  Prevention is a great way to avoid the pain that can occur with dequervains tendonitis.  You must make sure that you use your thumb and wrist as little as possible.  Now if you work and your job requires you to use these tendons you should wear some type of brace if you have a history of dequervains tendonitis or if you start to see early symptoms.  Don’t forget the old saying “prevention is worth a pound of cure.”

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