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The Natural History of Undiagnosed Wrist Pain in Young Women

A Long-term follow-up

From the Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham

Correspondence: Dr. J. P. Ryley, MA. M.R.C.Psych, Lecturer in Psychiatry, ‘A’ Floor, South Block, Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH

43 young women with undiagnosed wrist pain were followed up for a median of 13 years (range 3 to 19). 26% were now free of pain and 35% had improved; 30% were unchanged and 9% were worse. Overall, 40% were still significantly troubled. There was no evidence that those patients suffered or had suffered from emotional or psychiatric disturbance which might have been responsible for the pain. Only three patients had developed ganglia.

Journal of Hand Surgery (British and European Volume), Vol. 17, No. 1, 51-54 (1992)
DOI: 10.1016/0266-7681(92)90011-P


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