Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome

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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common peripheral nerve compression disease, and it is also the most common disease for hand surgeons. There are many non-surgical treatments for carpal tunnel syndrome, including branch immobilization and corticosteroid injection. If conservative treatment can not alleviate the symptoms of patients, surgical treatment should be considered. The cause of carpal tunnel syndrome is the increase of pressure in carpal tunnel, which leads to the compression of median nerve. The symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome, let me tell you.

Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome

The incidence rate of carpal tunnel syndrome is higher in women than in men, but the reason is not clear. Common symptoms include paresthesia or numbness in the median innervated area (except the radial half of the middle and ring fingers). Nocturnal finger numbness is often the first symptom of carpal tunnel syndrome. Many patients experience nocturnal finger numbness.

Many patients' numbness of fingers can not be relieved to a certain extent by changing the posture of upper limbs or shaking hands. Patients engaged in certain activities during the day will also cause the aggravation of numbness of fingers, such as doing needling, driving for a long time, holding a phone or reading books for a long time.

In the early stage, some patients only felt numbness and discomfort in the middle finger or middle ring until shoulder, but in the later stage, they only felt numbness and discomfort in the middle finger and ring finger of five fingers, index finger and radial half. With the aggravation of the disease, the patient may have clear fingers, hypoesthesia or loss, atrophy or weakness of abductor pollicis brevis and palmaris pollicis opposite.

matters needing attention

If there are similar diseases in the family, we must consider the possibility of heredity. We should pay attention to timely physical examination at ordinary times, so as to achieve early detection and early treatment. At ordinary times, we should strengthen physical exercise to avoid carpal tunnel syndrome caused by the decline of physical function.