Yesterday I was demonstrating CPR in a life support workshop. Today, I have pain in the left radial styloid process area. What could it be? Searching took me to two pages of interest. One is AAFP's page on diagnosis wrist pain . This page talks about many things including Finkelstein's test which is grasping the thumb with other fingers and then ulnar deviation of wrist. It was negative for me, and I definitely did not have De Quervain's tendonitis. But it could be the same tendons. What are the tendons involved in de Quervain's? The extensor policis brevis and the abductor policis longus which both go through the groove lateral to the radial styloid process. Maybe there was some microtrauma? The other article was about wrist injuries in emergency service providers . It does not look like I have a scapholunate ligament injury. So I decided to read more about de Quervain's. I found an article - Walsh and Miller: Pain about the Styloid Process - which beautifully
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