I have De Quervain's for the last 3 months. (Baby is 4 months, and I'm pumping) I've started physical therapy about 3 weeks ago. Does anyone have experience with this and does physical therapy help? If it did, how long was the physical therapy? If not, did you end up with the cortisone shot? The physical therapy has helped a little, and I'm getting frustrated and wasn't sure if i should keep going, or just give up and go with the shots. Does anyone know if the pain will alleviated if I stop pumping? (I'm not breast feeding) Thanks in advance for the help and advice!
Re: De Quervain's - Physical Therapy?
The pain was horrific. I couldn't sleep. I
Are you physically pumping or are you using a machine? If you using a hand-pump,that's probably aggravating your muscle tendons more and not helping the cause.
This is a neat article on DeQ :
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I did PT for my DQ with my first kid. I did 2x per week for 8 weeks (that was the max that insurance covered). It did help but I wasn't "fixed" at the end. But by then LO was about 7 months and I wasn't holding him nearly as much so I
BFP#1 "Watermelon" born 3/2011
BFP#2 "Pumpkin" 7/14/12 ~ EDD 3/23/13 ~ Natural M/C 8/3/12 @ 7 weeks
BFP#3 "Pineapple" born 4/2013
BFP#4 "Grapefruit" EDD 3/29/16