Executive Summary: Work Related Injury

DOI: 9/1/2012. The patient is a 42-year-old female referral coordinator who sustained a work-related injury to her bilateral wrists, right index finger and right elbow due to repetitive typing. As per office notes dated 6/8/16, the patient has not returned to work. She complains of bilateral hand numbness and tingling with grinding and popping upon flexion and extension of the index and middle fingers of the right hand. She complains of bilateral extensor forearm and lateral elbow pain, made worse by grasping and pulling. Objective findings revealed that there is tenderness over the lateral epicondyle. There is positive Cozen’s. There is tenderness over the proximal extensor muscle mass. There are bilateral well-healed surgical scars and bilateral