## Abstract The California Department of Health Services evaluated carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a median nerve entrapment condition associated with forceful and repetitive wrist motion, among grocery store workers at a large California supermarket where a CTS cluster had been reported. Forceful an
Carpal tunnel syndrome in carpet workers
β Scribed by Suleyman Kutluhan; Galip Akhan; Serpil Demirci; Senem Duru; Hasan R. Koyuncuoglu; Mustafa Ozturk; Bayram Cirak
- Book ID
- 106103117
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 77 KB
- Volume
- 74
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-0131
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