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Position of the affected limb.
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After using an indoor rowing machine, the symptoms were reproduced, the volar aspect of the right forearm tense and the wrist held in a flexed and ulnar deviated disposition (Figure 1):attempts to manually extend the wrist and digits was painful.
An incision was made just ulnar to the midline on the volar aspect of the forearm.
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A flexor compartment release was performed of the volar compartments via an incision ulnar to the midline on the volar aspect of the forearm (Figure 2).