Anatomy Symptom Presentation Patients with CTS often describe numbness rather than pain to the median nerve distribution consistent with the compression of the median nerve A clinician should b ID: 939228
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Anatomy: The Carpal tunnel is a canal fo
rmed by bone and ligamentus borders at the
wrist, through which the nine-flexor tendon
s (4 flexor digitorum profundus, 4 flexor d
igitorum Symptom Presentation: Patient
s with CTS often describe numbness rather t
han pain to the median nerve distribution c
onsistent with the compression of the media
n nerve. A clinician should be aware howe
ver, that some patients would complain of d
ysesthesia of the entire hand and not just
the thumb, index, middle, and radial half o
f the fourth digit. This is due to the poss
ibility of variable innervations of the med
ian nerve, as well as the patient’s su
bjective difficulty interpreting these symp