Don't ignore wrist pains, this injury could get worse

Repetitive strain injury occurs when too much strain is put on muscles that are too weak. Photo: dpa

There's one group of patients that shows up at Dr Christoph Eichhorn’s surgery with particular frequency.

“It’s young girls who write classroom tests with a fountain pen and have a very tense hand posture,” says the chairman of the German Association of Orthopaedic and Casualty Surgeons.