What are the manifestations of carpal tunnel syndrome?

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Few people have heard of carpal tunnel syndrome. It is a neurological disease. It is also an operation that surgeons often perform to treat diseases. The incidence rate of this condition is not high, but if it is not treated, it will become more and more serious. Now I'll talk about the performance of carpal tunnel syndrome.

What are the manifestations of carpal tunnel syndrome?

First, carpal tunnel syndrome is a group of symptoms and systemic symptoms of median nerve in the compression surface of carpal tunnel. It is the most common form of peripheral nerve entrapment syndrome. The clinical manifestations were pain and numbness in the thumb, index finger and middle finger, especially in the middle finger. The pain is obvious at night and can radiate to the forearm and shoulder.

Second, because the palmar cutaneous branch of median nerve originates from the lower end of forearm and passes through the surface of transverse carpal ligament, it does not show the abnormal sensation of palm. With the development of the disease, the muscle strength of abductor pollicis brevis and palmaris pollicis opposite decreased, and thenar muscle atrophy often occurred. In the late stage of individual cases, neuronutritional changes occurred, such as cold fingers, cyanosis, nail thickening and peeling, Hypohidrosis, etc.

Third, the main clinical manifestations of carpal tunnel syndrome are compression of median nerve, numbness of index finger, middle finger and ring finger, tingling or burning pain, aggravating at night after working during the day, and even waking up during sleep; Local pain often radiates to the elbow and shoulder; The abductor muscle strength of the thumb is poor, occasionally there is an end object, and it suddenly misses when lifting the object.

matters needing attention

The symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome may appear in the fingers do not listen, may be accompanied by tremor and weakness, patients who have this symptom should pay attention to friends, should go to the hospital as soon as possible, under the guidance of the doctor, so that the disease of carpal tunnel syndrome can be controlled.