To the best of the author’s knowledge, there is no scientific evidence indicating that the condition is caused by occupational or recreational overuse. Conversely, the analysis of historical series documents its higher prevalence among women over the centuries, even at times when only men effectively participated in the manual, repetitive work. Therefore, even though overuse may exacerbate symp...

BACKGROUND Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae is an established animal pathogen, which may cause infections in humans. It is a gram-positive rod and found in the tonsils or the digestive tracts of animals. The bacterium is occupationally related, as usually only people with frequent animal contacts are infected. We report a case of a patient who was admitted with an infectious tenosynovitis with bloo...

Background: De Quervain's tenosynovitis is an inflammatory disease due to the chronic overuse of tendons of first dorsal compartment of wrist. Modifications in normal kinematics and anatomical determinants of a tendon in students are common which may be the cause of this disease and little is known about the prevalence of this disease in medical students. Objective: The purpose of the study was...

(4) As an attempt to explain specifically the intermittent cases, those associated with a clicking Found or sensation, and those showing spontaneous resolution, it has been suggested that there is a circumferential constriction of the trochlea and sheath preventing a locally enlarged tendon fi-om sliding freely in the sheath. This concept, first proposed by Girard (I956,1has been mentioned by o...

Perhaps the least satisfactory diagnosis in painful conditions of the wrist is that of tenosynovitis. In the first four patients in this series a diagnosis of tenosynovitis of the flexor carpi ulnaris was made, but their failure to respond to the usual conservative measures stimulated further investigation. The tests herein described, and the response to operative fusion, suggest that sprain of...