Hello everyone, this is my first time to do a post here in read.cash and my topic for today is all about Overuse Strain Injury.

You may associate overuse injuries with the workplace. factory employees, keyboard operators and meat cutters are among those most commonly affected by injury. But the motions required for their jobs are imitated in many of your daily activities.

MOST OBVIOUS SYMPTOM IS PAIN

An overuse strain injury results from overusing muscles and tendons. Most of these injuries occur in your hand, wrist and arm including feet. The most noticeable symptom is pain. But an overuse injury can also cause tingling, weakness, numbness, swelling and stiffness. Injury may be caused by more than just repetition. youre more likely to become injured if you are not conditioned for prolonged activities or your movements are combined with forcefulness or an awkward position.

COMMON CONDITIONS

Carpal tunnel Syndrome

The carpal tunnel is a passageway under the carpal ligament in your wrist that contains the median nerve and the tendons that bend your fingers. Overuse can cause swelling compresses the median nerve. The result is numbness, tingling or pain starting in the wrist and moving down into your thumb and first three fingers or backward your elbow. Symptoms may be worse at night.

Tennis Elbow

You dont have to spend time on the courts to have this condition. Any condition of rotating your wrist and using force- from playing golf to using a manual of epicondylitis. The pain begins near your elbow and may move toward the outside of your forearm. The actual injury may be tiny tears in the tendons that attach the muscles of your lower arm to your elbow.

Tendinitis

The cause of an inflamed tendon near your wrist, elbow or shoulder is most often excessive exercise, beyond what youre used to. Repeated movements such as using a paintbrush above shoulder level contribute to this type of injury.

EARLY TREATMENT MEANS EARLY CURE

To prevent an overuse injury from getting worse:

Treat the pain- Apply heat or cold to ease the pain. As tolerated, take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen sodium.

Rest- Don't keep pushing yourself in spite of your pain. Overuse injuries ussually heal if you stop the activity thats aggravating the condtions. It may take several weeks for the pain to go away completely.

Immobilized the injured area- one way to stop the pain is to wear a splint that prohibits the aggravating movement.

Talk to your Doctor- A prescription analgesic or antidepressant can help manage persistent pain.

Take advantage of physical therapy- cold and heat applications, ultra sounds or electrical stimulation to block nerve pathways can relieve persistent pain and help restore normal muscle function.

Consider surgery a last resort- A costeriods injection may relieve severe pain that does not respond to traditional treatments. In rare cases when it does not you may need surgery.

Carpal tunnel surgery involves dividing the carpal ligament to relieve pressure on the median nerve. Similarly surgery for trigger finger relieves pressure by making an incission in the membrane, allowing the tendon to glide freely.