Identification and prevention of work-related carpal-tunnel syndrome
โ Scribed by Gary J Macfarlane
- Book ID
- 117276760
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Volume
- 357
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a clinical entity characterized by pain, paresthesias, and numbness in the distribution of the median nerve with weakness and atrophy of the thenar muscles in advanced cases. It is universally accepted that CTS is the clinical concomitant of compression of the median
## Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a syndrome whose diagnosis is well established. One cause could be occupational factors, while others have no relation to work or the work environment. We present in this article a case report regarding a worker affected by CTS, which is of interest concerning th