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Pain and tenderness on the thumb side of the wrist [3] Usual onset: Gradual [4] Risk factors: Repetitive movements, trauma: Diagnostic method: Based on symptoms and examination [3] Differential diagnosis: Base of thumb Osteoarthritis [4] Treatment: Pain medications, splinting the wrist and thumb [4]
Wrist arthroscopy: is an invasive diagnostic tool, but it remains to this day the most accurate way to identify TFCC lesions. [9] Note: Imaging techniques can only be relevant together with the clinical findings of a carefully performed physical examination. Other than a TFCC injury, there are many possible causes for ulnar-sided wrist pain.
A distal radius fracture, also known as wrist fracture, is a break of the part of the radius bone which is close to the wrist. [1] Symptoms include pain, bruising, and rapid-onset swelling. [1] The ulna bone may also be broken. [1] In younger people, these fractures typically occur during sports or a motor vehicle collision. [2]
Pain at the base of the thumb, swelling [2] Complications: Nonunion, avascular necrosis, arthritis [2] [1] Types: Proximal, medial, distal [2] Causes: Fall on an outstretched hand [2] Diagnostic method: Examination, X-rays, MRI, bone scan [2] Differential diagnosis: Distal radius fracture, De Quervain's tenosynovitis, scapholunate dissociation ...
Work-related factors such as vibration, wrist extension or flexion, hand force, and repetition are risk factors for CTS. Other risk factors include being overweight, female, diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis, thyroid disease, and genetics. [3] [5] [8] [9] Diagnosis can be made with a high probability based on characteristic symptoms and ...
Finkelstein's test was described by Harry Finkelstein (1865–1939), an American surgeon, in 1930. [5]A similar test was previously described by Eichhoff, in which the thumb is placed in the palm of the hand and held with the fingers, and the hand is then ulnar deviated (see images), causing intense pain over the radial styloid which disappears if the thumb is released.
Wrist structures prone to injury are the triangular fibrocartilage complex and the scapholunate ligament. [1] Wrist sprains may occur when a ligament is ruptured or lacerated in severe trauma, stretched or twisted. [1] Commonly, wrist pain is caused by sudden load-bearing or twisting effects, such as falling from a height with an outstretched ...
The main differential diagnosis is polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR), although pain, stiffness and weakness at the level of the shoulders and pelvic girdle with associated systemic symptoms (fever, malaise, fatigue, weight loss) is more typical of PMR.