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FAQ of Carpal tunnel syndrome
1. What is carpal tunnel syndrome?
Carpal tunnel syndrome is also called the Median nerve entrapment syndrome. The median nerve is a nerve of upper extremity, it passes through wrist carpal tunnel to dominate the movement and feel of hand, if nerve coarsens and become edema (such as diabetes, menopause, pregnancy, hemodialysis patients) or tendon around the nerve coarsens (such as rheumatoid), wrist tube’s volume will be smell and then nerve will be squeezed, at this situation，symptoms will be produced. The median nerve can control feelings and partial muscle activity of thumb, forefinger, middle finger and ring finger. It cause hands numbnes, pain, weakness, or hand muscular atrophy.
2. What are the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome?
The most typical symptom is awakening as hands numbness and pain (two hands) in night. The symptoms relieve after swing hands and then the muscle will atrophy.
3. Who will suffer tunnel syndrome easily?
Women suffering form carpal tunnel syndrome is 3 times of man. Reasons: 1. Women’s carpal tunnel is tinier; 2. Frequent hand activity, such as physical exertion home; 3. because of physiology, Women’s hormone change is bigger (pregnant or menopause).
The person whose major work is using of hands has highest incidence, the women who deal with poultry feathers in market (in this crowd Renault morbidity is also high) is the most common case, In addition to housewives, cleaners and so on
4. How to diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome?
The occurrence of pain and numbness means requirement of immediate seeing of doctor, if the muscle begins atrophy, the treatment effect will be very poor.
Diagnosis should mainly rely on the doctor’s examination and EMG inspection. Especially for some patients who has diagnosed as Mild cervical disc herniation or cervical spondylosis, if there has no effects after traction treatment we should consider that may be misdiagnosis exists or may be it’s carpal tunnel syndrome.
5. How to self-examination?
Is it awaking because of hands numbness?
Does it symptoms relieve when you swing hands?
Couldn’t you hold on about one minute when you do wrist buckling?
If the answer is yes, it means you need to go to the hospital to see a doctor.