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Our hands are an important to almost any of our daily activities. If we are to injure our hands, wrist or even our fingers can impact how we function normally while playing, at work, at home and in the sport that we do.

When we get a health injury, this can impact how we do things. Some injuries that can happen can be thumb tendinitis and even Dequervains tendinitis. Getting these injuries can happen in a number of different ways.

What is Tendonitis of the Thumb

Let’s talk a minute about tendonitis in the thumb. Sometimes this can happen when you have an irritation or swelling of the hand tendons. Usually this will happen on the thumb side of the wrist.

This irritation then causes the compartment (the lining) that is around the tendon to swell. This swelling changes the shape of the compartment. Then the tendon cannot move in the compartment as it should. What happens then is pain and tenderness along the thumb side of the wrist. You will notice the pain when you try to make a fist or when you try and grasp or grip things and by turning the wrist.

Thumb tendonitis and a repetitive motion injury

Repetitive motion can cause a host of problems. This repetitive motion over the years will or can cause problems with the nerves in the hand (carpal tunnel syndrome), pain in the hand, your fingers can start to lock or click (trigger finger) or you can lose the movement or severe pain in the thumb.

Signs and Symptoms of Thumb Tendinitis

Pain on the thumb side of the wrist is the main symptom. This pain may appear gradually or even suddenly. This may even seem like an arthritic pain. The pain is felt in the wrist, but can travel up the forearm.

There are many symptoms that can alert you that there is something going wrong. The pain will typically be on the thumb side of the wrist. When you move the hand or twist the wrist or sometimes when you go to grab something the pain can be severe. When this problems starts to get really bad, your thumb and or fingers may start to snap or catch. When you are having numbness on the back side of the thumb or the index finger this is a very good sign that something is very wrong and you are pinching a nerve.

What can you do?

An initial treatment when you start to feel the symptoms is to rest the thumb. Stop doing and moving the injured area. You can start to ice the thumb in 15 minute intervals. Take some over the counter anti-inflammatory medication. Use a thumb splint or brace to reduce the movement and help to support it.

When suffering from thumb tendonitis or De Quervain’s tendonitis, you doctor may have you get a cortisone injection. This is going to help with the swelling and the pain. I have had them and they do work quite well. Be careful taking multiple injections in that this can weaken the tendon and cause more damage.

Sometimes surgery can become necessary. This would happen if the pain remains constant or if it continues to come back. Surgery sometimes is a good options and can cure the problem. It is just a small incision and is day surgery, you are in and out. You just wear a splint until the stitches are removed.

Thumb tendonitis and the way to tell if you are suffering

A simple 3 step test to tell if you are suffering from thumb tendonitis or even Dequervain’s tendonitis. The following is the way to tell.

* What you need to do first is to make a fist by having the fingers over the thumb.

* Now it is simple, just bend the wrist in the direction of the pinky (little) finger.

* When a patient is suffering from DeQuervain’s tendonitis or even thumb tendinitis, the above procedure can cause quite an amount of pain. Tenderness to the touch is also going to occur on the the base of the thumb.

Now you know how to see if you are really suffering from thumb tendonitis. Two steps and you know for sure.

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