Do you often feel pain in your wrist or thumb? It is important to recognize every unusual thing that happens to our bodies. Making your diagnosis, and doing something like taking the painkillers sometimes are not the right things to do. It might create a morbidity condition. It’s better to prevent the worse case than to treat the bad case, right?

Recognize the symptoms of De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis (dih-kwer-VAINS ten-oh-sine-oh-VIE-tis). It makes you hard to use your hand and wrist properly and limit your wrist’s motion with the pain which is felt near the base of the thumb, swelling near the base of your thumb, hard to move thumb and wrist in involving grasping or pinching, and a “sticking” or “stop-and-go” sensation in your thumb when moving it.

If you have experienced these symptoms, please don’t just let it go, because it could be De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis. It is a relatively common disorder. A Twibbonize frame is present as a campaign to raise awareness about this painful condition.

Ethero.quervain campaign – by Aniq Shabrina

Link: https://twb.nz/etheroquervain

This frame is inviting you to optimize the use of hands to prevent De Quervain syndrome. By using this Twibbonize frame to spread about De Quervain’s Tenosynovitis, it allows more people to realize this pain. “Come be a part of us, the hero of de quervain!”, the last sentence described on this Twibbonize frame, and almost 2 hundred people have tried to be the hero of de quervain.

The exact cause of this painful condition is not known yet. But, at least there is an understandable provocative Finkelstein test. If the thumb is flexed and held inside a fist and you actively clearly deviate the wrist, it creates a sharp pain along the radial wrist at the first dorsal compartment. According to mayoclinic.org, direct injury to your wrist or tendon, scar tissue can restrict movement of the tendons Inflammatory arthritis, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Do not make it worse by create some changes in your life. By still working in the garden, playing golf or racket sports, lifting your baby, or other activities that make your wrist and around your thumb move repeatedly, you are either provoke it out or you are making it worse. Therefore, be fully aware of the symptoms, causes, prevention, and treatment of a health problem is a substantial thing.

The pain’s caused is very unpleasant. That is why this campaign is a matter. Show your empathy to support this campaign by using and sharing this Twibbonize frame with your friends on social media. As among the forties and fifties people, 0.5% prevalence of de Quervain tenosynovitis happens in men and 1.3% in women. So, be the hero of de Quervain is a chance for you to do one more good thing today.