Golfer’s elbow is tennis elbow’s inner-side twin: tendon overload from grip, not golf. Same rules apply: loading beats rest, months not weeks, and pain plus ring-finger tingling means the nerve next door is involved.
Tennis elbow is tendon degeneration, not inflammation, which is why rest and pills disappoint. The fix is months of graded loading. Here’s the honest 6 to 12 month timeline, and why starting early decides which version you get.
De Quervain’s tenosynovitis, the mummy wrist: thumb-side pain that flares when you lift thumbs-up. Splint early and change the lifting technique, and it’s a 4 to 6 week story. Push through it, and it ruins the first year of parenthood.
Night tingling in the thumb, index and middle fingers that shakes out is early carpal tunnel, and a night splint genuinely helps. Constant numbness and a flattening thumb mound mean the nerve is dying. Here’s the honest timeline between those two points.
Trigger finger is a tendon catching on a thickened pulley at the base of your finger. Caught at the click stage, a splint usually settles it in 6 weeks. At the locking stage, the options narrow. Here’s the honest timeline.