CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME COMMON WORK INJURY TREATMENT DIAGNOSIS AND WHO GETS CARPAL TUNNEL

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME REPETITIVE WORK AND TREATMENT DIAGNOSIS AND WHO GETS CARPAL TUNNEL

Yoga for Carpal Tunnel What's an EMG Test

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Carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by pressure on a nerve in the wrist. Symptoms of carpal tunnel can be numbness in the hand or burning or a feeling of pins and needles. You may have weakness in the hand or trouble grasping or holding. You can think of the nerves as electrical wiring in your hand. Inflammation of the narrow tunnel or tube that travels through your wrist, puts pressure on the nerves. Pressure on nerves interferes with nerve impulses and can feel like burning or numbness. People who do repetitive motion tend to get carpal tunnel. So, for example, people who work at cash registers, typists or carpenters might be more likely to get carpal tunnel syndrome.









The carpal tunnel in your wrist is an actual tunnel, sort of a tube in the wrist that is surrounded by bone on three sides and a ligament (a band of tissue) over the top. Tendons (connectors for muscles) and nerves are all stuffed into this narrow tube. 3 nerves travel into the hand. The nerve of the middle fingers, the median nerve, is most often implicated in carpal tunnel. Imagine a plastic tube about one and a half inches across stuffed with wires, cables and pipes.



Carpal tunnel affects an estimated 3 percent of adult Americans and is approximately three times more common in women than in men. Carpal tunnel can feel like tingling or burning or numbness. It can be in just certain fingers or all fingers. It can be on one hand or both hands. People with carpal tunnel syndrome can feel pain and numbness radiating to the forearm, elbow, and shoulder too.



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Diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel and Nerve Conduction Study

By listening to the symptoms and hands on exam, a doctor can often make the diagnosis of carpal tunnel. Doctors also order a nerve conduction study. In a nerve conduction study EMG they test to see how fast electrical impulses travel thru the affected nerve. You expect changes with carpal tunnel syndrome.



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People with carpal tunnel syndrome might:

avoid repetitive wrist and hand motions

avoid using vibratory tools like jackhammers, chain saws, drills, polishers floor sanders
It may help to wear a special splint that keeps the wrist in a neutral position while you sleep.You might also wear the splint during the day. Exercises to stretch the carpal tunnel may help. Steroid pills such as prednisone or steroid injections near the carpal tunnel might help the hand feel better for a longer time. If your symptoms bother you a lot or do not get better after two steroid injections, you might need carpal tunnel release surgery.