Need doctors' attention please. my niece had a baby.she began to get pain in her wrists right after baby's
Question:
when the baby was 3 month old, she began to lose grip on things.she has shooting pain. baby is 9 month now and she is getting worse.
doctors say she has a condition called Dequervains Tensonyzitis..and recommend surgery, but say " she can't use her hands for 3 months post surgery."
will some one explain or give the best advise?
Answers:
DeQuervain's syndrome (also known as washerwoman's sprain, Radial styloid tenosynovitis or De Quervain's disease or mother's wrist), named for Swiss surgeon Fritz de Quervain who first identified it in 1885, is an inflammation of the sheath or tunnel that surrounds two tendons that control movement of the thumb.
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