hi there, my name's brian, and this videois about how i was able to get rid of my dequervain's tendonitis. i'm making this video because i had this tendonitisfor like six months, and it's really a pain, and i looked all over for something that wouldhelp and really very little did, so i wanted to put this information out there in caseit helps somebody else. so what is dequervain's tendonitis? it isan inflammation of the tendon that runs along the back of the thumb, across the wrist anddown the forearm that enables you to move your thumb away from the rest of the hand,and you use this every time you go to reach for something, to grab something, or to picksomething up, and if it becomes inflamed,
i mean you'll know it, because the hand becomesalmost useless without the thumb. in my case, i got this because of a repetitivemotion injury, i was using a pair of hand pruners out in the lawn, but anything thatyou do like using scissors or anything that would cause you to have to move that thumbup and down, over and over, can cause this injury. and once you get it, it can becomechronic, meaning it never goes away, and that's bad. from what i could tell on the internetit sounds like a lot of people end up suffering with this for twelve to eighteen months beforeit finally resolves, and i'm not so sure that it ever does for some people. so i went to the doctor because my hand hurtso much, and he diagnosed dequervain's. now
the way this is diagnosed is that you putyour thumb into the palm, wrap it up with your other fingers and then just try to bendyour whole wrist down from the---your whole fist down from the wrist. and if you can do this without pain, thenyou don't have dequervain's tendonitis. but if even the attempt hurts, or you can't dothis without pain, it really hurts to do it, then you probably do have dequervain's tendonitis,and that's what my problem was. and in fact the hand that i'm doing that demonstrationwith is the one that i had the tendonitis in, and that's now resolved. so that rightthere is amazing to me because i haven't been able to do that for six months without a lotof pain.
so the doctor told me that what i needed todo was rest the hand. basically this can't be done, i mean, every day i would try torest the hand, but invariably i'd forget, i'd go to reach for something just not thinking,and i would hurt the tendon again, and all the pain and inflammation would be right backto where it was. i tried going to a chiropractor, who's beenable to help me with a lot of things, but couldn't help me with this. we tried tenstherapy on it, that did not help, i tried massage therapy, that did not help, i triedacupuncture, that did not help. aspirin did not help. there were only two things that seemed tohelp. one of them was, i would actually try
to stretch it every morning and the way idid that was i would just take the other hand and i would try to move the thumb down intothe palm like this, slowly over a period of about five to ten minutes, until i could getit all the way down to the palm, then i'd go ahead and wrap it up like that, and theni would just move that wrist around like this and try to stretch that tendon out a littlebit. and this did help, especially prevent it fromhurting during the rest of the day. but, it took a while, and i had to do it every morning,and every morning the tendonitis was back. the other thing i did that actually did helpwas icing the hand, i would fill a bucket with ice, put water in that, then i'd puton a dish washing glove and i'd just plunge
the whole hand into this bucket of ice andswirl it around for about ten minutes. getting your hand that cold actually reallyhurts, but once you get your hand that cold the pain and inflammation is gone, so if youhand is really bothering you, this really helped quite a bit. and it's also a good timein which you can do this stretching that i just showed you. but i want to caution youthat if you do get your hand that cold and then you stretch it, be careful because you'vedeadened that hand to pain and you don't want to overdo it while it's that cold or you couldreinjure the tendon. but in my case, this worked quite a bit, andit would resolve the pain for most of the rest of that day and even for a couple ofdays, but then the tendonitis was still there.
so eventually basically my sister in law saidthat a client of hers had a friend that had also had tendonitis and had resolved it usinga product that contained glucosamine and chondroitin. and i'd heard of these things before becauseanother friend of mine had a dog with a hip condition that almost made the dog unableto walk, and the only thing that had worked for this dog owner was to give his dog glucosamineand chondroitin, and he said that it was like night and day. his dog was able to then walk,go up and down steps, and was like a new dog with this supplement. and so i thought, a dog can't have a placeboeffect, if it helped the dog, something must have really been going on. so i decided totry this product, once again i want to stress,
i'm not gonna, trying to push this particularbrand, but since it's the brand that worked for me i was gonna show it to you, the particularbrand that i tried was the one that she recommended, it's called osteo-biflex, it contains chondroitinand glucosamine and some other products that this particular manufacturer claims help itmake work---make it work better, i don't know if that's true, for all i know any productcontaining those key ingredients would help, this just happens to be the product that iused. now this product says to give it about sevendays before you expect results, i took some of the product the same day i bought it, andi noticed immediately, actually, the next day, that my hand was quite a bit better,and when you've gone six months with no improvement,
that's a pretty big deal. and in fact, thishas now been a week of taking it, and it's literally been borderline a miracle becausei would say that this hand, this is the one i had the tendonitis in, i couldn't do thisa week ago, and i haven't been able to do that for six months, and within a week nowof taking this product, i have regained what i would say is at least eighty percent ofthe function of this hand back again, and the pain is at least or ninety percent resolvedas well. it's been huge, so i wanted to put that information out there. the other thing i learned from my friend wasthat she only had to take the product for about two months, and then was able to quitusing it. so i'm hoping that by getting that
inflammation down and continuing to take theproduct for a couple of months, that it will allow that tendon to finally completely healand i won't even need the product anymore. i did a lot of research on these ingredientson the web and um, you know there's a lot of, of debate about whether or not they work,so i wanted to put this video out there because i can assure you that having lived with thiscondition for six months and then having a complete turn around in just a week, it reallyworked for me. so i hope that if you do decide to try it, that you have as good a resultas i did, if you don't, i guess you know, i'm sorry about that, but man, it really helpedfor me, so i wanted to put the information out there in case it does help someone else.hope that helps you guys, thanks for watching.