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What Is The Treatment For The Swelling At The Wrist?
Injured my wrist playing tennis during the winter and made it worse by shoveling wet snow a week later. I have very weak right wrist and swelling at wrist at styloid ulnar. Its been 9 weeks and with icing, wrist splint, some physio and 500mg of naproxin twice a day, very little appears to change. My doctor won t refer me to a specialist until a few months pass doing conservative treatment. Not the pain it s the frustration (very active at 68) of not being able to play golf tournaments and not knowing what it is. The swelling at the top of ulnar has become firm, a week after it started to swell. It doesn t look like a bad injury but feels very unstable. Can t lift myself off floor. Is this a ruptured tendon tear or a cartilaged out of whack. What would keep it from normal healing? Read that corticosteroid injection is effective but does that depend on type of injury? Thanks John
Wed, 9 Mar 2016
hi john,
thanks for writing to healthcaremagic.
you seem to have injured a major ligament around your wrist.its called TFCC(Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex). its one of the major stabilizers of wrist joint.
this ligament is put to use especially when wrist joint is loaded, like lifting any kind of weight or stretching wrist joint to its extreme.
please remember, ligaments have a poor blood supply, so their healing potential is also very limited. they do take quite some time to recover.
your doctor is doing the right thing as initial treatment is conservative like....
icing
wrist splint
physio
antiinflammatory like naproxen
in the meantime you should also try and give rest to your wrist by avoiding heavy activities.
if things don't improve , next step is definitely a corticosteroid injection and it has good results.
wishing you a speedy recovery
thank you
thanks for writing to healthcaremagic.
you seem to have injured a major ligament around your wrist.its called TFCC(Triangular Fibrocartilage Complex). its one of the major stabilizers of wrist joint.
this ligament is put to use especially when wrist joint is loaded, like lifting any kind of weight or stretching wrist joint to its extreme.
please remember, ligaments have a poor blood supply, so their healing potential is also very limited. they do take quite some time to recover.
your doctor is doing the right thing as initial treatment is conservative like....
icing
wrist splint
physio
antiinflammatory like naproxen
in the meantime you should also try and give rest to your wrist by avoiding heavy activities.
if things don't improve , next step is definitely a corticosteroid injection and it has good results.
wishing you a speedy recovery
thank you
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