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According to Bing, Choi, Jung, Ryu, Ahn, Kang, & Shin, (2018), de Quervain’s disease is a painful swelling which affects tendons which are found at the wrist and the base thumb.  Sometimes de Quervain’s disease is referred to as de Quervain’s tenosynovitis or de Quervain’s syndrome. The swelling causes pain at the lower part of the thumb and the wrist especially when the impaired nerves rub against the lining of the tunnel they pass through.  The swelling puts pressures on the nerves thus resulting in numbness and pain on the lower thumb or the wrist region.  When a person suffers from de Quervain’s disease, it hurts when he or she turns hand, grasp something or…