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Wrist Tendonitis pain for 6 months leave for military training in 6 more months

Hi, I have had an ongoing tendonitis problem in my right wrist since june, and it doesn't seem to be getting better.

I hurt it while working out at the gym, doing onearm dumbbell preacher curls.

I am very resiliant to pain and continued to workout of a month, until i could barely curl a dumbbell without pain.

in july i start seeing a sport physical therapist for the wrist who has used stim treatment for it. the stim treatments have gone on since july, and seem to help, but since july i have been off and on working out which seems to aggravate the tendon even more.

5 weeks ago i stopped working out, and haven't touched a weight since. About a week and a half ago i started administering home ultrasound treatments with a 1MHz ultrasound machine for about 5 minutes.

I have stopped since it seems to be making it worse.

yesterday i started trying the ice dipping and ice massage. There also seems to be inflammation on the end of the ulna. There seems to be a great deal of inflammation on the underside of my wrist on the pinkie side. It hurts when i face my palm upward and twist outwards. It is more of a stiff pain then a sharp pain.

it also hurts on the side of my wrist when i grip something vertically and rotate my wrist. that is a sharp/shooting pain. the problem is i leave for training in 6 months, but i am getting worried because its not getting better and i only have 6 months left before i ship. I am considering purchasing wrist tendonitis ebook if the ice dipping and ice massages don't show improvement.

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Joshua Answers:

Hello there.

1. Well, do you know if you have Wrist Tendonitis, an actual rip or tear in the tendon, or just a huge Pain Causing Dynamic?

2. Did this pain just show up out of the blue or did it slowly come on over time and then you started to really pay attention to it?

3. Say more about the ultrasound irritating it more.

4. How much have you iced dipped so far? And, is the water arctic cold?

5. Describe your average daily food intake.

6. Any history of injury?

7. Overall health?

8. Anything else that would be of interest to me?

Thanks for all the details, btw.

I'm curious what your answers look like. And yes, I suggest that you get the Reversing Wrist Tendonitis ebook and MEMORIZE it.

Looking at a career of the military and working out, you're going to need to know how to get yourself out of pain, and keep yourself out of pain.

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Nov 30, 2010
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reply to questions - Wrist Tendonitis pain for 6 months leave for military training in 6 more months
by: Anonymous

1. I went to a doctor that confirmed tendonitis, but never got an MRI.

I think there could have been rips and tears AND pain causing dynamic because (which brings me to question

2) I am pretty sure that i hurt is once during preacher curls, but ignored it until i could not grip the weight, so initally a rip/tear, now probably more of a giant pain causing dynamic.

3. I read a great deal of articles that say ultrasound is good for treating tendonitis, so i purchased a 1MHz machine and gel to start doing self treatments 3x a day at 5min each. at first i think it helped, i noticed a lot less stiffness, though there was still some sharp pain, but as i progressed my wrist (the tendon, the "side of the tip of the ulna" and the "top of the ulna") seem to be swollen and bigger then on my left wrist

4. I have been ice dipping tons since my last post, at least 20x a day and the water is very arctic (4 gallons of cold water, one large bag of ice from safeway, 2 frozen water bottles and what ever ice is in the freezer form the ice machine).

It has helped with pain, but there is no improvement with inflamation.

5. My daily intake is high in calories and protein. I eat at least 1 gram of protein per pound of body weight, and about 2500 calories a day i used to supplement with creatine, nitirc oxide formulas, beta alanine and all sorts of stuff, but now its just protein powder since i can't workout.

I have no history of injury like this, though a couple broken bones here and there from sports/snowboarding, and i am in excelant overall health, with a sub 6min mile.

Since writing i have purchased the ebook, and have been doing [edited out]. I also got some magnesium oil, and have been applying 3-4x a day which seems to help, although it is very swollen.

The only magnesium pills i could find are magnesium oxide, so i got some glucosamine and chondroitin. is it possible to attach a picture?

I am considering accupuncture, although i have heard that it works great or doesn't work at all.

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Joshua Comments:

Hey there.

That's my experience with Acupuncture too.

So it makes me curious if you do actually have some rip/tear in there.

Pain goes down with icing, good. But there's still a lot of inflammation, meaning swelling?

And does the swelling go down or not with the ice dipping?

Dec 01, 2010
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reply - Wrist Tendonitis pain for 6 months leave for military training in 6 more months
by: Anonymous

Swelling (yes inflamation) does not go down with icing. the only thing that i have noticed to reduce swelling is wearing a brace at night. im not sure if that is reducing the swelling or just "compressing" or restricting it as i sleep, because it is back once i take the brace off.

Would i know if i had a rip or tear based on how much it hurts? it hurts to flex and rotate, or just simply twist, but if i had to i could lift through it (which i did in the past, only made it worse).

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Joshua Comments:

Technically the brace reduces inflammation because the compression prevents swelling. Which doesn't mean that there is no inflammation, just no swelling because it -can't- expand.

Pain isn't necesarily an indication or rip or tear. In that, you can have NO rip or tear and still have debilitating pain.

You can feel around with your fingers, and explore along the structure.

1. Tell me again, how long has it been swollen?

2. What happens when you Ice Dip? (Do that serious for a few days and tell me the results.)

Dec 13, 2010
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Follow up from ice dip
by: Anonymous

I iced dipped a copious amount for 4-5 days and the swelling didn't go down. My wrist was constantly red and swollen. I went to the orthopedist who scheduled me for an MRI, He said that I should lay off the ice dipping for a few days because I could be giving my wrist "frost bite".

So i have stopped ice dipping for a few days and the reddness is gone but there is still lots of swelling, though not as much.

I am waiting for the results from the MRI and I will keep you updated. BTW sorry for the late reply.

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Joshua Comments:

Great.

And for the record, doing 10 second ice dips, you are in -NO- danger of frost bite. That doctor is smoking crack. It's like saying 10 seconds of direct sunlight will give you 3rd degree (sun)burn.

Plus, one either has frost bite or not. There is no 'getting frost bite'.

Anyhoo. As I describe, sometimes you need to ice dip until you start to win, which can take several days depending on what's going on, and how much 'copius' means.

There's A LOT going on under the surface of your skin, and just because it doesn't look like it's working, doesn't mean that it isn't.

Keep us updated. Curious to see what the MRI shows.

Dec 16, 2010
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MRI results - Wrist Tendonitis pain for 6 months leave for military training in 6 more months
by: Anonymous

I was ice dipping every 10min for two hours a day @ twenty sec. per dip followed by hand massage. should i ice massage as well or no?

I received the MRI results today. I was surprised to find out that they were negative for anything at all. With those results he set me up with a wrist therapist. I am curious, would tendonitis without a rip/tear, and just a pain causing dynamic show up on an mri?

It still hurts to clench my wrist and rotate and there is still some swelling. I guess I am then going to start ice dipping again. Should i keep my arm in for 10 or 20 seconds, and how much time should remain between ice dips?

Honestly i think the orthopedist was trying to save face with the "frost bite" issue, I've noticed how surgeons hate to be wrong about something.

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Joshua Comments:

If you don't have a rip or tear on a tendon, and you don't have a spot of serious microtrauma and inflammation, then you're not likely to see anything on an MRI.

If you have pain symptoms from nutritional deficiencies, that won't show up on an MRI.

If you have pain symptoms from muscles and connective tissue that are just TOO TIGHT and irritable, that won't show up on an MRI.

Remember. We assume that if there's pain there's a physical problem. This is not always the case. Not even close.

So.

Yes, 10-20 seconds. You want to give your body time to push new blood into the area before dipping again.

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