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Wrist Tendonitis: A Guide for Families and Professionals

Posted on 08/30/2025

Wrist Tendonitis: A Guide for Families and Professionals As a parent, professional, and caregiver, life involves constantly juggling responsibilities, whether it’s helping your children with their homework, caring for aging parents, or handling work demands. Amid this, you might experience aches and pains, such as wrist discomfort, that seem minor at first but can eventually become debilitating. You might assume it’s Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) causing that pain, but did you know wrist tendonitis could be the true culprit? Understanding…

Wrist Tendonitis: Self Treatment

Posted on 07/15/2013

Martha has been complaining that her wrists hurt and that her hands were often numb. The orthopedic surgeon diagnosed a Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and prescribed wrist surgery. CTS is perhaps one of the more common misdiagnosed arm conditions. The symptoms are very similar to Wrist Tendonitis and differential diagnosis is not too difficult. Certainly patients frequently misdiagnose their own problem and unfortunately so do their doctors, perhaps this happens because testing for tendonitis requires familiarity with soft tissue conditions, not very well taught in…