I am a new MT and have only been working a couple of weeks but loving it! I was just wondering if any of you seasoned MTs out there remembered having hand and wrist pain when you first started? With the increased amount of typing that I have been doing all day long every day, I find that my hands and wrists hurt when I am doing other things. I am not talking about being sore, which I expected until I get use to all the typing, but actual stabs of pain when I move them certain w ...
My left wrist is killing me. I have been doing ASR for years but lately my wrist hurts much worse. There is probably going to be a syndrome named for this. MModal wrist syndrome or something. I have also had 3 carpal tunnel surgeries. It's ridiculous to be killing our health for peanuts. ...
Has anyone else noticed extreme pain pop up since SR became the norm? I used to get tired fingers, but nothing like has come on the last few years. I'm on the verge of surgery from tennis elbow on both sides, CT on both sides, can't move my hands for a half hour after I wake up in the morning, etc.
All the years of typing didn't bring this on, but 3 years of SR has. Seems obvious to me! ...
Hello Friends,
If you could kindly share your tips on what you do to keep your wrists going for some more years. Do you type with a brace, frequent breaks, hand exercises? Any ideas please?
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A patient who has a rotator cuff repair on the right and then started having pain to the left wrist after surgery. The pain was 10/10 but recently has been helped by "brafyvac" or "brafyfac" therapy?
Anybody know what that is?
Thanks. ...
There is no evidence of significant rotator cuff tear and she has normal appearing s/l **slant sign** of the shoulder on her radiographs, I believe that she would be a candidate for a total shoulder rather than a reverse total shoulder. ...
Patient had ultrasound, s/l TFM, iontophoresis, exercises for range of motion, strength of the left shoulder, elbow and gripping as well as a trial of H-wave stimulation. ...
She has 5/5 strength throughout the bilateral lower extremities with hip flexion, knee flexion and extension, ankle dorsiflexion and plantar flexion as well as extension of the hallux. Sensation is intact to light touch throughout except over the anterior aspect of her shin. She has a symmetrical 2+ Achilles and patellar reflexes. She has no evidence of clonus. She has a questionable s/l ** men-i-ski reflex. She has palpable DP and PT pulses. Thanks for any help!! :) ...
"Pictures of hip were performed and brought in by the patient. They were read as normal, but on my review there is an ***** cyst "(sounds like asitaviner!) any ideas? ...
For ESL doctors, account specifics direct me to change word if it is the wrong word, but leave it if its simply awkwardly stated.
Dr states "Patient refers pain in upper abdomen," but clearly means reports pain. Do I leave it or change it? ...
I'm going completely blank on this one. The patient entered the hospital for chest pain. The doc states: (blank sounds like gel, or jail)
He denies any current discomfort but states when it is present it is usually a mild to moderate degree of pressure about the chest. He denies any radiation to the _____, arms, or back. ...
There is ____________of the scaphoid at the attachment of the scapholunate ligament with a subtle tear not being able to be excluded. There is mild dorsal __________ of the lunate. There is irregularity of the triangular fiber cartilage without frank tear and _________.
MRI demonstrated degenerative changes at the 1st carpometacarpal and scaphotrapezial joint. She has cystic changes versus fluid in the scapholunate interval. There is s/l ***in-stig-nus**** of the scaphoid a ...
The patient is still having significant problems with regard to her left wrist. A [cockupwrist] was applied for such.
He might be saying .. 'dressing' where I think I hear wrist.. and its a K sound (or c) at the beginning, but I've gone through my list of dressings and nothing seems to fit.
any ideas?
tia :) ...
X-ray findings were obtained and reviewed today. These demonstrate a solid fusion of his distal radius with excellent consolidation of all his carpal bones. His pisiform is in excellent conjunction with the radius itself; the "dairy J"? appears to be well-preserved. There is callus formation over the radius.
Please HELP!!!!
"Dairy J" ...
The patient has a painful wrist and the doc says what sounds like "balar" joint. I've never heard of it and looked up joints and bones and just cannot find this. Sentence is: She is tender along the _____ joint on the left wrist. ...