Carpal tunnel syndrome and manual work a longitudinal study

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), the commonest nerve entrapment syndrome, is one of the most frequent occupational disorders related to manual work. Both occupational and personal risk factors make it difficult to recognize the true origin of its Author: S Mattioli, C Fiorentini, F Graziosi, S Venturi, R Bonfiglioli, M Bonparola, F S Violante.  · Carpal tunnel syndrome and manual work: the OCTOPUS cohort, results of a ten-year longitudinal study. Objective The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH) proposed a method to assess the hand, wrist and forearm biomechanical overload based on exertions frequency (hand-activity level) and force use (normalized peak Cited by: Abstract. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a fairly common condition in working-aged people, sometimes caused by physical occupational activities, such as repeated and forceful movements of the hand and wrist or use of hand-held powered vibratory tools. Symptoms may be prevented or alleviated by primary control measures at work and some cases of disease are compensable.

Objectives Evidence on occupational determinants of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) mainly derived from cross-sectional or retrospective studies. We conducted a cohort study to investigate the association between biomechanical occupational exposures and CTS symptoms. Methods A longitudinal study on different groups of industrial and service workers started in ; outcome measures were conducted. Epidemiological studies Computer work and carpal tunnel syndrome. In the literature search on the association between computer work and CTS references were identified (Figure 1).Eight epidemiological studies met the criteria for inclusion [] (two of the papers were from the same population [11, 12]).Four of these studies were prospective in design [, 12], one was a case. Authors of a new study on carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) say that when you toss out the splints, steroid injections, lasers, and other treatments often lumped in with physical therapy as part of a "conservative" approach and focus solely on a debate about surgery vs specific multimodal physical therapy, physical therapy makes a compelling case for itself.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), the commonest nerve entrapment syndrome, is one of the most frequent occupational disorders related to manual work. Both occupational and personal risk factors make it difficult to recognize the true origin of its occurrence and to devise prevention strategies. Objective: To assess risks associated with work-related biomechanical overloads in onset/course of carpal tunnel syndrome. Methods: Workgroups with job tasks spanning different biomechanical exposures were evaluated at baseline in terms of American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists hand-activity/peak force action limit and threshold limit values (TLV). Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common cause of pain, numbness and tingling in the wrist and hand region and is associated with repetitive wrist and hand use in office workers. However, scarce knowledge exists about the epidemiology of clinically confirmed CTS among Chinese office workers.