Wrist tendonitis is a very frequent and very painful condition related to wrists, which usually involves either irritation, or inflammation of the tendons around the wrist joint. The most common causes of this condition are related to the repetitive use of the wrist, and it is very common among the athletes and people who work a lot with computers. Even though there is no rule, older people are a bit more likely to develop tendonitis.
When it comes to the treatment of wrist tendonitis, the surgery is practically the last solution, and it is only suggested in those cases in which all the other methods of the treatment have failed to show positive results. These methods consist of rest and use of the anti-inflammatory drugs in the first place. If this turns out to be unhelpful, then the chance will have to be given to the immobilization of the wrist by splints, casts and braces, and this will probably have to include some time off from work, and maybe even some kind of a physical therapy. However, if none of these suggestions help, the following step will be a cortisone injection.
If the problems with wrist tendonitis continue even after several months, and if it turns out that none of the mentioned so far helped, it will be obvious that the case is serious, and that it requires the ultimate possibility, which is, of course, the surgery. Surgery is very simple, and it is done under the local anesthesia, with the purpose to scrap the tendons, in order to release the pressure from the inflamed area, thus making more space for tendons to move. But, unfortunately, along with this, connective tissue gets cut as well, which causes further damage to the wrist. The patients will be sent home right away, they will have to rest, return to the normal activities and every day routine very slowly, pain relievers will probably be necessary, and after some time, physical therapy will be a part of the postoperative treatment. But in the great majority of the cases, people will have to return for another surgery, because the pain and other symptoms will reappear. So, it turns out that the surgery does not treat the cause of the problem.
Nowadays, there are much less invasive methods than before, and medical technology constantly advances, but this kind of surgery will not cure the patients with wrist tendonitis, so they should not have too high expectations. It will certainly make people feel better for some time, and it will probably diminish the pain significantly, but some time after the surgery, many patients will begin to feel the pain again.
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