De Quervain’s disease and other tendinitides of the wrist and forearm

Extract

• Tendon pain states in the wrist and forearm are caused by one-sided, repetitive and prolonged strain or an imbalance between strain and rest.
• Most tendon and muscle pain states can be treated conservatively with strain reduction and drug therapy.
• Surgical treatment may come into question in chronic stenosing tenosynovitis.

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Cumulative Trauma Disorders, De Quervain Disease, Finkelstein's test, M65.4, M77.9, Orthopaedics, Physical medicine, Surgery, Tenosynovitis, Thumb, Wrist, long abductor muscle of thumb, provocation test, short extensor pollicis muscle, steroid-injections, styloid process, tendinitis