The wrist is the area near the hand. It consists of a group of eight bones, the carpal bones, which articulate with the forearm at the carpocarpal joint, or carpal joint, between the carpus and carpal bones, and distally with the metacarpal bones. The area also includes the carpal tunnel and anatomical snuffbox.
De Quervain’s syndrome is a tendinitis, an inflammation of the sheath that surrounds two of the tendons that move the thumb.
Sharp pain in the area of the thumb, pain, tenderness and swelling on the dorsal side of the wrist, difficulty in holding – grasping objects, pain that may radiate to the forearm or even cause awakening from sleep.
Anti-inflammatory drugs, ice, rest and avoidance of aggravating activities, use of a splint that encloses the carpometacarpal and metacarpophalangeal joints of the thumb and wrist.
The scaphoid is one of the small bones of the wrist and its fracture is the most common type of fracture in the wrist (90%), while it constitutes about 5% of fractures of the entire skeleton.
Pain in the wrist, swelling in the wrist and especially at the base of the thumb, pain and difficulty in the movements of the wrist and thumb when the person tries to grasp something.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common condition caused by pressure or entrapment of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel (tunnel).
Numbness (numbness) of the hand, mainly 3-4 fingers (thumb, index and middle finger).
Manual Therapy and Nerve Mobilizations.
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