What are the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome

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Carpal tunnel syndrome is a kind of peripheral nerve entrapment syndrome. This disease is also a very common disease, and there are many causes. When suffering from this disease, we must treat it in time. If this disease is delayed for too long, it will bring serious impact to the patients. The main patients of this disease are middle-aged people, The main reason is that the median nerve is jammed in the wrist and causes a series of symptoms. Different patients have different symptoms when suffering from this disease.

What are the 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

Usually suffering from this disease, we must pay attention to a reasonable diet, at the same time, before the patient has fully recovered, it's better not to vomit and exercise violently, so as not to aggravate the patient's condition, so we must pay more attention to it in peacetime.