The influence of age on distal latency comparisons in carpal tunnel syndrome

✍ Scribed by William J. Hennessey; Dr. Frank J. E. Falco; Dr. Randall L. Braddom; Dr. Gary Goldberg

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 266 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-639X
• DOI: 10.1002/mus.880171014

✦ Synopsis

Numerous efforts have been made to improve the sensitivity and specificity for the electrodiagnosis (edx) of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The concept of comparison of DLs has developed over the past few decades to increase the electrodiagnostic sensitivity of CTS, especially in cases where routine DL measurements are within normal one of these efforts have addressed the elderly population or the influence advancing age could have upon the interpretation of nerve conduction studies (NCS) for the edx of CTS.

People over the age of 60 years comprise the largest segment of our p ~p u l a t i o n , ~ yet no standardized data for DL comparisons of the elderly population exists in the literature to provide an accurate interpretation of electrodiagnostic findings for the edx of CTS. The purpose of this study was to establish normative data for within hand distal latency (DL) comparisons in the healthy el-limits. 1-3,7,8,10,13-16 N From the