Eighteenth session for thumb/wrist

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During the 12 days after the last session, I took note of activities triggered the pain:

  • Lifting the bottom of my t-shirt.
  • Scooping up soup using huge ladle.
  • Drinking soup with a spoon from a bowl held near me.
  • Dicing chicken.
  • When thumb was used to scoop up dental floss that dropped on floor.
  • Holding phone horizontally and bringing it closer by bending elbow and wrist.
  • 5th finger pressing Shift key while 2nd finger pressing the 8 key

The good news was that when it occurred, the intensity was less.

During this session, the therapist remarked that the tendon was no longer swollen. After further testing, he concluded that it was back to the original diagnosis i.e. De Quervain tenosynovitis 😔Possible repetitive actions that might cause this, that is specific to me, are using thumb to press space bar and the positioning of wrist when using keyboard.

Lee massaged and used shockwave to treat the pain. As usual, the pain went away after that. I was to continue with the current exercises and still refrain from doing certain exercises as well testing the pain. Regarding the last point, we both suspect that me regularly testing the pain set back the recovery. I think it's true because once I stopped doing that, the intensity of pain lessened permanently.

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