You may simply be told this patient has radial sided wrist pain
- Usual screen
- Examine for Various causes of radial sided wrist pain
- Bone (3)
- Scaphoid pathology - check anatomical snuff box
- Radial styloid - check tenderness over radial styloid
- Lunate pathology - check tenderness over lunate
- Joint (2)
- Base of thumb OA - Grind test over CMCJ
- Tendon (2)
- Dequervain - Eichoff, finkelstein, tenderness
- Intersection syndrome
- Inflammation at the crossing of 1st and 2nd compartments
- Feel for crepitus 5cm from joint
- Nerves (1)
- SRN nerve - 5cm above radial styloid Tinel test
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