Exercises using a touchscreen tablet application improved functional ability more than an exercise program prescribed on paper in people after surgical carpal tunnel release: a randomised trial [PDF]
Question: In people who have undergone surgical carpal tunnel release, do sensorimotor-based exercises performed on the touchscreen of a tablet device improve outcomes more than a conventional home exercise program prescribed on paper? Design: Randomised,
Blanquero, J. +5 more
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Endoscopic carpal tunnel release surgery: a case study in Vietnam
Background This study aims at investigating the outcome and electrophysiologic recovery of 150 carpal tunnel syndrome hands after single-portal endoscopic surgery.
Dung Tran Trung +8 more
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Patient-Reported Disability Measures Do Not Correlate with Electrodiagnostic Severity in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Electrophysiologic studies including electromyography and nerve conduction studies play a role in the evaluation of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), despite evidence that these studies do not correlate with CTS-specific symptom scores.
Atroshi +25 more
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Analysis of surgical options for patients with bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome. [PDF]
Background: Bilateral endoscopic carpal tunnel release is a modality offered for the treatment of the median nerve compression neuropathy. This retrospective study compares outcomes for patients undergoing open carpal tunnel release versus bilateral ...
Fuller, David +5 more
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BACKGROUND:Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common neuropathy disorder for which surgical treatment consists of release and reconstruction of the flexor retinaculum. Reports of postoperative clinical outcomes after carpal tunnel release with or without flexor
Sike Lai, Kaibo Zhang, Jian Li, Weili Fu
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Background The aim of this study was to analyze the clinical results of minimal single palmar-incision carpal tunnel release without a tourniquet. Methods We reviewed the medical records of 75 patients (90 cases of carpal tunnel syndrome ...
Seongwon Lee, Sangho Oh, Daegu Son
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Background Carpal tunnel syndrome can be treated with corticosteroid injections (CIs) and surgery. In this systematic review, the influence of previous CI on different postoperative outcomes after carpal tunnel release is evaluated.
Ali Kumaş +4 more
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Carpal tunnel syndrome associated with oral bisphosphonates. A population-based cohort study [PDF]
© 2016 Carvajal et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
Arias, LHM +7 more
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Postoffer Pre-Placement Screening for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Newly Hired Manufacturing Workers [PDF]
OBJECTIVE: We determined the predictive validity of a post-offer pre-placement (POPP) screen using nerve conduction velocity studies (NCV) to identify future cases of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
Buckner-Petty, Skye +4 more
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Power grip, pinch grip, manual muscle testing or thenar atrophy - which should be assessed as a motor outcome after carpal tunnel decompression? A systematic review [PDF]
Background Objective assessment of motor function is frequently used to evaluate outcome after surgical treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). However a range of outcome measures are used and there appears to be no consensus on which measure of motor
AA Gerritsen +47 more
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