Finkelstein Test

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Finkelstein Test

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Tests forĀ DeQuarvain Tenosynovitis

Steps:

  1. Have the patient close their fingers around their thumb
  2. Doctors holds on patients hand to ulnar deviate the wrist to put a pull on the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus 

Test is considered to be positive if pain is reproduced indicating tenosynovitis

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