Ninth session for thumb/wrist

After the previous session, the pain stayed away for a day and then it started coming back gradually over the week. So it was back to square one.

After doing further test to a certain, once again, where the pain was exactly, the therapist concluded that I did not have De Quervain’s tenosynovitis (what??). The pain seems to be around the carpal tunnel but it is not carpal tunnel syndrome. Tendonitis, probably.

One quirk that the therapist commented was that when he fixed the alignment on one side of my hand another side of my hand went out of alignment and when he fixed the second one the first one occurred again. 😵

The treatment he applied consist of massage, shortwave, ultrasound, icing and taping.

Next appointment is in a week's time. In the meantime, I cannot use mouse and keyboard with the right hand for a week 😱. Can try swimming but stop if pain comes the next day. Do the following exercises:

(1) Hand's pointing down, inner palm faces out. Use other hand to lightly pull back fingers towards self, just to slightly stretch tendon. Hold for 10s. Repeat 14 more times. Once a day.

(2) Hand grips dumbbell. Curl slightly towards self 15-30 times. Alternate day.