Re: wrist pain

In article <0001HW.BFF169B80001D36512868BB0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
hanbellGOGATORS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 13:50:18 -0500, Thumper wrote
> (in message <sgqns15vdbs5oh02dguo757fmrhaf81pek@xxxxxxx>):
>
> my ct releases were great successes, 99% improvement on the left, 75% on the
> right - until i tore up that wrist. but i'd had an emg and some chiro work
> to rule out the neck as the source (having had a couple of bouts of pinched
> nerves prior to the ct probs). after 2 years of splints 22 hours/day, i was
> desperate for some relief and have been overjoyed at my results.
>
> i knew one person who waited almost a decade before having surgery and by
> then had permanent nerve damage that couldn't be reversed.
>
>
I am right now wearing a splint for wrist pain. It's not carpal tunnel,
but instead Dequervain's tenosynovitis. I've been going to PT
diligently twice a week for a few weeks, and wearing this splint, taking
off a few times a day to exercise, then back into the resting splint,
all in the hopes of avoiding surgery.

I hate surgery. I hate the thought of it. I hate the IV's and sedation
and lack of control and hospitals, etc. I know that as far as surgeries
go, a tendon release is a minor operation. I just hate the thought of
it. I'm going the "conservative" route.

But, with my hand, my Dupuytren's contracture, previous surgery, and now
the Dequervain's, I have a feeling that I'm just holding off the
inevitable. <sigh>
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