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This is an overuse injury of the Abductor pollicis longus and the extensor pollicis brevis. It presents as tenderness on their common sheath about 5cm distal to the wrist on the radial border. Finkelsteins test is to forcefully ulnar deviate the wrist. If pain occurs in the area of the tendon pulley it is positive for De Quervain’s