Symptoms of Tendonitis in Thumb - DeQuervain’s Tendonitis
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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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