Washer Woman's Sprain

Directly to the left of the 'anatomic snuffbox' in this photo where basically you have the slight bump in the hand, I've experienced slight swelling. Nothing appears to be broken because I got X-rays though X-rays don't always show fractures, the swelling I am told is not too severe and often if you break something in the hand, there can be major swelling in the hand. I have researched this issue and though I can't find it right off, it might be the kind of injury that has been suffered by women in the past from 'washing clothes and then ringing or twisting them out', a bit of a repetitive motion type of deal, this may have to do with the nerves. Sometimes, if say, there is a jar or bottle to twist open, the discomfort comes back. The one way to truly heal this may in fact be to put the thumb in a splint but I'm not positive if this is the problem and I don't want to spend too much going to a sports injury practitioner. This does not really limit my use in about anything but if anyone has any advice, I'd be open to hear it.

Back around a year ago as said in these forums, I might have tried the 'perfect push-ups' products and immediately, I did not like this because of the twisting of the wrist. Then one day in the summer I rode the bicycle back from the store and in my right wrist, I was carrying some groceries, that's all but since that time, I feel like that was sort of the straw that aggravated this THOUGH it is important to mention I was playing a football/soccer game and at one point may have fallen hard on my wrist and falling on your open palm/wrist is often the way "wrist sprains" happen. As I said, the swelling here is very minor, my thumb has not lost it's mobility, as I said sometimes when twisting something does the pain come to the fore.

This whole episode may be slightly carpal as well, having to do with the nerves. We will see. I've edited this a whole lot of times so I am sure it sends the "views" number real high.

Here is another good illustration of the hand. Again, we'd be looking at more of the area at the base of the thumb. The swelling is not real noticeable. I think it must be a sprain of some sort though it does not seem too bad, it seemed to flare up more when I did some heavy snow shoveling not long ago. I also do have one of those carpal wrist braces, but nothing like that seems to make too much of a difference unless maybe if I tried to really immobilise the area which I have not really done per se.

Also, I can read this on wrist sprains, http://orthopedics.about.com/cs/sprainsstrains/a/wristsprain.htm this is not what I really have. A splint might heal it. Not much pain really, I'd characterise it more as discomfort.

Here we go, it may be "Washer Woman's Sprain" or the "De Quervain's Syndrome" as shown on this web page, http://orthohoda.blogspot.com/2009/06/dequervains-syndrome-washerwomans.html I try to copy quotes here but it comes with all the formatting so I'll just post the link.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeQuervain%27s_syndrome#Treatment

Hmmmn, it reads acetaminophen has been used, I've used ibuprofen but not the other, also I have iced, compressed. It seems better than it was after shovelling snow and typing like this is of no problem nor doing any kinds of biceps, triceps exercises but for cardiovascular, I might stick to safer past times.



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I will sign off now, and I guarantee you, internet stalking...

OK, terribly sorry but you're a very scary person and now banned. Good luck with your life.

...going on vaguely accusing people of killing babies, rape, stalking, etc, half incoherently, possibly because you felt offended in a thread about vitamin supplements? along with refusing to ever even read pm's from admin is just a bit much even for me. I'd like to leave this one thread out where it can be seen despite it's scary nature in an attempt to offer some slight bit of communication with you, since you've refused to ever even read a single pm from an admin here.

WOW! That was kind of scary weird. We should probably lock this thread as there seems no need to continue with it. I think the whoever it is has some problems!