Writer’s cramp is a condition that involves chronic sustained pain or sudden painful contraction of some muscles of the hand or fingers.
The patient experiences this disease generally feels uncontrolled, irritating or tedious muscular contraction that leads to changed movements and abnormal position or attitudes of hands and fingers.
Writer’s cramp mostly affects one body part and people between the ages of 30 to 50 years generally get affected with this disease. However, it can affect any age group; both genders equally.
Though the exact reason behind Writer’s cramp is not clear yet but it is normally believed to due to excessive muscular or motor activity, might be complicated by a flawed writing technique.
Moreover, there is a possibility that in some cases, this disease might be aggregated by some certain chemical exposure. Furthermore, Writer’s cramp might not occur with any family history. But in some reported cases hereditary tendency had play a key role.
The major symptoms of Writer’s cramp include occurrence of pain and feeling uneasiness while using the hand or fingers for quite a long time. Apart from it, patients experienced difficulty in using the hands, for writing, typing or for any other professional purposes along with a severe pain. A similar situation can also be observed in some professionals like musicians playing some instruments, or might be in case of golfers.
Moreover, the handwriting becomes changed, even some times unreadable as well. Patients mostly face many difficulties because of the change in their signatures.
Some of the most Common Symptoms Include:
Diagnosis of writer’s cramp can be made by doctors depending on the information given by the individual and the physical and neurological examination. However, there is not any specific test to validate the diagnosis of this condition.
The hands can get affected due to various conditions. Tendon problems, Arthritis, and muscle cramps can all result in causing pain in the hands. Carpal tunnel syndrome is mainly due to nerve compression.
Writer’s cramp is mostly mistaken for over-use conditions. Repeated-use syndromes or over-use syndromes are generally characterized by pain, while writer’s cramp is mainly responsible to cause problems with coordination. Focal hand dystonia can be held responsible for just around 5% of all conditions affecting the hand.
The exact treatment strategy for writer’s cramp vary from case to case as there no single treatment strategy is appropriate for every case. The most effective method is adapting tasks to avoid triggering the dystonic movements. This might include occupational therapy or using assistive/adapted devices.
There is large number of oral drugs that have been considered helpful for people with writer’s cramp, but none of them seems to be equally effective. Around 5% of people’s symptoms improved with the help of anticholinergic drugs, such as Cogentin (benztropine) and Artane (trihexyphenidyl).
Botulinum neurotoxin injections can also prove helpful, particularly in treating those writer’s cramp cases, where there is a major deviation of the finger joints or wrist. Though this treatment is not quite effective for all people, but considerable improvement in writing and reduction of pain has been observed in majority of people treated this way.
Homeopathic treatment is proven quite effective for Writer’s cramp especially if this condition is treated in its early stages; as the chances of complications become less.
Homeopathic medicines for writer’s cramp work as muscle relaxants and pain relievers. Homeopathy treatment aims at reducing sudden painful contraction (spasms) and to reinstate the disturbed functions of the body parts.
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I have writer's cramps in right hand. I have lost the beauty in my hand writing as I am unable to control my finger movement. Please suggest dosage of GELSEMIUM30 or any other medicine as remedy.
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Sir...I'm suffering from writers cramp since 5 years and I'm taking homeopathic medicine. Got good results but now again it's reoccurring. I feel as if I'm beaten by 5 to 6 people while writing or just after writing. I have lost interest in writing..... please help me to get rid of this
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Writer's cramp for many years. Not able to write from right hand hence managing to write in left hand. Please do suggest a medicine to get rid of this issue
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Sir i am also suffering from writers cramps..i find very difficult to write pain ,hand shaking have to hold pen tightly to write anything...i lost my beauty of writing...!!
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I am also suffering Writer’s cramp from 10 to 11 years. Not able to write from right hand. Please suggest medicine or proper treatment to resolve this problem.
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