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x0000x0000 xAttxachexd xBottxom xBBoxx 4x5 47x029x2 54x274x5 11x203x69 xSubxtypex Foxoterx Tyxpe xPagixnatixon. S Department of Health and Human Services Office on Womens Health Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Carpal tunnel syndrome CTS is the name for a group of problems that includes swelling pain tingling and loss of strength Surgery involves relieving the pressure on the nerve by dividing the transverse carpal ligament and releasing the median nerve. This is usually carried out as a day case under local anaesthetic (you a Further information on carpal tunnel syndrome is available online at It’s a condition that affects the carpal tunnel - a narrow passage in the wrist, formed by the wrist bones (which make up the Anatomy. Distribution. Signs & Symptoms. Pain – Worse at night. Paraesthesia. – Sparing the . Thenar. Eminence. Weakness and Atrophy of . Thenar. Muscles. Aetiology. Intermittent or sustained high tissue pressure in the Carpal tunnel impairs . Pathophysiology/epidemiology. Caused by compression of median nerve. Can cause edema, devascularization, demyelination. Myriad factors contribute to development. Irritation of flexor tendons, rheumatoid arthritis, congenital deformity of retinaculum. Radiocarpal. Flexion, extension, abduction, and . circumduction. Carpal. Gliding joints. Stabilized by anterior, posterior, and connecting ligaments. Metacarpal. Flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, . Dr . Syed. . Ajaz. Babar. Consultant Radiologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer. Hammersmith Hospital. Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust. The hands are two intricate, prehensile, multi-fingered body parts normally located at the end of each arm of a human or other primate.. Dana Cruz, MD. University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix. Background. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is the most common peripheral neuropathy, occurring in roughly 3-5% of the population. Large economic burden. ASPC Audit lead. free to email me. GtbVas@Yahoo.co.uk. Or grab me in the Coffee breaks!!. Why Audit?. To improve you have to firstly see how you compare to others and their outcomes…don’t you want to be the best you can?. C ARP AL TUNNEL S YNDROME Consultant Hand Surgeon, Chennai Hand surgery centre Professor of Orthopaedics, SRMC, Chennai Definitio n : It i s a symptomatic compression neuropathy of the median nerv the bmj | 8 November 2014 27 symptoms without treatment has not been satisfactorily resolved. How is it diagnosed? The diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome is a clinical one that ma Saad. Al. -Nasrawi. Specialist trauma and Orthopedics surgery. The carpal bones are arranged in two rows of four each In the proximal row, from lateral to medial, are the scaphoid, lunate and . triquetral. David Pitkethly, MD facs faans. Department of Neurological surgery. University of Washington school of medicine. Differential Diagnosis. Cervical disc herniation. Carpal tunnel syndrome (median nerve at wrist). Dr. Sonalika’s Eye Clinic provide the best Eye infection treatment, Conjunctivitis treatment in pune, Hadapsar, Amanora, Magarpatta, Mundhwa, Kharadi Rd, Viman Nagar, Wagholi, and Wadgaon Sheri