"A Comparative Study of Shock Wave Therapy & Low-Level Laser Therapy in the management of De-Quervains Disease in Dental Professionals"

De-Quervain’s Tenosynovitis is a painful, inflammatory condition caused by tendons on the side of the wrist at the base of the thumb. The main complaint, pain, worsens with thumb abduction, hand grasping, and ulnar deviation of the wrist. Thickening and swelling may also be present. Due to overuse injuries, this condition is most frequently observed in dentistry. In Dental practitioners, the proportion of shoulder pain is more common than wrist pain. Shoulder pain is correlated with wrist pain since the wrist is continually used during dental practice. The prevalence rate of shoulder pain occurs 52% of the time, whereas wrist and hand pain occurs 37% and 21% of the time, respectively. Therefore, we can aid in the reduction of the prevalence of shoulder pain by managing wrist pain. Shock wave therapy and laser therapy are used to treat De-Quervain’s disease-related wrist pain. However, no such study has been done till date to compare the effectiveness of Shock wave therapy and Low-level laser therapy in dentistry professionals. It is, therefore, necessary to conduct the study to determine which modality is more successful in treating De-Quervains in Dental professionals.