Treatments for Repetitive Stress Injury?

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What treatments are there for Repetitive Stress Injury?

Answers:
Discontinue repetitive use. Splint the involved part, ice, elevate, NSAID's (anti-inflammatory meds), and physical therapy. Failing these - steroid injection and sometines surgery depending upon the case.

Other Answers:
less stress

stop doing whatever it was that caused the injury Rest for the effected part, then more rest. In severe cases cortisone injections may be recommended. However, that is not the end of it. There are always causes for the injury and these should be looked at before resuming the type of work that caused it. Bad posture, the keyboard too far in on the desk - it should be at the edge - whatever the cause, it must be got rid of before resuming..

I"m going to assume you are talking about carpal tunnel
Night Splints
Antiinflammatories
Steroids
Cortisone Injections
Rest
Physical Therapy
Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery
Ice

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