W.H.A.T. TEST FOR DE QUERVAIN'S DISEASE De Quervain's disease is defined as tenosynovitis of the abductor pollicis longus and the extensor pollicis brevis tendons due to repetitive hand or wrist movements. Different tests have been described in the past with the most popular test being the Eichhoff's test, often wrongly named as the Finkelstein's test. Over the years, a misinterpretation has occurred between these two tests, the latter being confused with the first. As the Eichhoff’s test is ver

FINKELSTEIN OR EICHHOFF'S TEST: A DESCRIPTIVE ERROR IN THE LITERATURE FOR DECADES? When testing for De Quervain's disease/paratendonitis of the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus, the Finkelstein's Test has been described as the hallmark of this disease. However, the Finkelstein Test has been described in a wrong manner in the English literature for three decades according to Elliot et al. (1992) - so basically for more than 50 years already. This error is actually the so-call

FINKELSTEIN OR EICHHOFF'S TEST: A DESCRIPTIVE ERROR IN THE LITERATURE FOR DECADES? When testing for De Quervain's disease/paratenonitis of the extensor pollicis brevis and abductor pollicis longus, the Finkelstein's Test has been described as the hallmark of this disease. However, the Finkelstein Test has been described in a wrong manner in the English literature for three decades according to Elliot et al. (1992) - so basically for more than 50 years already. This error is actually the so-calle