The Relationship Between Sustained Gripping and the Development of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Overview

Journal Fed Pract

Specialty Health Services

Date 2019 Feb 16

PMID 30766186

Citations 2

Authors

Mark A Ferrante

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Abstract

An examination of clinical and electrodiagnostic assessments and fully characterized individual hand usage patterns finds a relationship between sustained gripping and the development of carpal tunnel syndrome in the nondominant hand.

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