Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Case Study

Some of the injuries that can occur in the hand are Cubital Tunnel Syndrome and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome along with many more. Cubital Tunnel Syndrome causes pain or numbness in the ring and little fingers, but could also go to the arm (Types of RSI, 2010). Occurs when the ulnar nerve is pinched along the elbow’s edge (“funny bone”), and has tingling or painful feeling (Types of RSI, 2010). Cubital Tunnel Syndrome can be treated by avoiding putting pressure on the “funny bone” (Types of RSI, 2010). Cubital could lead to surgery if the nerve needs to be relieved. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is similar to Cubital but occurs in the three first fingers. A major nerve is compressed which passes over the carpal bones through the front of the wrist (ASSH, 2015). When the nerve is compressed it causes painful, tingling and numbness in the first three fingers (ASSH, 2015). Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can be treated without surgery by changing the patterns of hand use and/or wearing wrist splints at night (ASSH, 2015). If severe then surgery can take place to make the nerve have more

Patient is a 57-year-old male fuel tank driver who sustained cumulative trauma on 2/7/2004 due to repetitive movement caused by delivering fuel. As per QME dated 1/25/14, the patient has numbness in the fingers and the patient is diagnoses that he has carpal tunnel syndrome. The left wrist had undergone carpal tunnel surgery; however, he gets numbness from the wrist up into his forearm and numbness in the fingertips. It was also noted that on 12/5/13, the patient complains of shoulder pain bilaterally at 7/10. It is constant and goes into noth arms, along with weakness with numbness in the hands, decreased ability to perform activities of daily living, and impared grip. The pain in the bilateral shoulders is constant and aching with intermittent

Cubital tunnel syndrome is a condition that affects the ulnar nerve in the arm. The ulnar nerve runs along the medial portion of the arm, behind the medial epicondyle of the humerus, and down into the hand where it innervates the fifth digit and the medial half of the fourth digit, as well as controlling most of the little muscles for fine movement in the hand and larger muscles in the forearm used for grip strength (The American Center for Spine and Neurosurgery [ACSN], 2015). The ulnar nerve can become compressed in several locations as it travels down the arm from the neck, such as beneath the collarbone, at the elbow, or at the wrist. When this compression occurs at the elbow, is referred to as cubital tunnel syndrome. The ulnar nerve at the elbow is commonly referred to as your “funny bone”, but those who have had the pleasure of hitting it know that it is not funny.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is numbness, tingling, weakness, and other problems in your hand because of pressure on the median nerve in your wrist.

Carpal tunnel syndrome causes pain in your wrist because the nerve is irritated from inflamed tendons. This often comes about due to a repetitive motion you make during work. While stopping the motion and rest might help you heal faster, that's difficult to do when your condition is caused by your job. Therefore you need to find effective treatment, and unfortunately, that is often tricky with this painful condition. Even surgery isn't always a permanent solution. One treatment to consider is chiropractic care. Here's a look at some treatments you chiropractor might recommend to help with carpal tunnel syndrome.

DOI: 9/30/2014. Patient is a 28-year-old female research assistant who alleges pain and weakness in her hands/wrist as a result of repetitive scooping dirt from soil barrels. As per OMNI entry, the patient was diagnosed with cervicobrachial syndrome (diffuse), right carpal tunnel syndrome and insomnia. She is status post endoscopic carpal tunnel release (CTR) on 09/24/2015 for the right and on 06/02/2015 for the left side.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, also known as CTS, a term we hear often but may not understand the extremities of. Each year various people are diagnosed with CTS, which causes symptoms of numbness, weakness, and other feelings of discomfort in an individual’s wrist. To put it quite frankly, Carpal Tunnel causes symptoms are annoying and can affect individuals from various walks of life.

One of these symptoms is called Carpel Tunnel syndrome. It causes the hand or the arm to get numb and tingle because of a pinched nerve in the wrist.

Your carpal tunnel is a narrow, hollow space in your wrist. It passes between your wrist bones and a band of connective tissue (transverse carpal ligament). The nerve that supplies most of your hand (median nerve) passes through this space. So do the connections between your fingers and the muscles of your arm (tendons). Carpal tunnel syndrome makes this space swell and narrow, causing pain and numbness.

De Quervain disease is inflammation of the tendon on the thumb side of the wrist. Tendons are cords of tissue that connect bones to muscles. The tendons in your hand pass through a tunnel, or sheath. A slippery layer of tissue (synovium) lets the tendons move smoothly in the sheath. With de Quervain disease, the sheath swells or thickens, causing friction and pain.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common condition treated by orthopedists. The carpal tunnel is a narrow structure inside of your wrist which houses flexor tendons and the median nerve, both of which are protected by a type of tissue called synovium. When the synovium swells, pressure is put on the nerve, resulting in numbness in the palm side of the thumb and long fingers. Many factors can cause the synovium to swell and crowd the median nerve including heredity, hormonal fluctuations, hand usage, age, and medical conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes. There are several symptoms that indicate carpal tunnel syndrome. These are often experienced when holding a steering wheel while driving or at

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is numbness, tingling, weakness, and other problems in the hand caused by pressure on the median nerve in the wrist. The median nerve along with tendons run along the forearm to the hand into a small space in the wrist. Adding pressure along the median nerve causes the carpal tunnel to become smaller. Additional causes for this disease is injury or trauma to the wrist such as a sprain or a fracture. Medical problems such as an enlarged pituitary gland, hypothyroidism, and fluid retention during menopause can all cause this disease. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and strokes states that women are more likely to have this disorder compared to men because a women’s carpel tunnel is smaller.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) occurs when the median nerve, which runs from the forearm into the palm of the hand, becomes pressed or squeezed at the wrist (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services 2012). Symptoms of CTS include pain, tingling or numbness in the affected hand and they tend to be worse at night.

Normal muscle tone noted bilateral (B/L) wrist and hand limited range of motion (ROM) to right thumb. Inspection: No joint deformity and swelling noted. No bogginess, or tenderness noted during palpation over the distal radius, and the ulua on the lateral medial surfaces of B/L hands. Denies tenderness over the radial styloid bone (snuffbox) during palpation. C/o of tinging during the Tinel’s sign test. Weakness was noted in the thumb abduction test and the hand grip test. Patient c/o discomfort during thumb movement test, but no ulnar deviation noted.

Non-traumatic tendinopathies usually have an insidious onset of localized pain over the anterosuperior shoulder, during the arc range of 60 – 120 degrees. However, as the disorder progresses, it causes pain at night, interfering with the sleep pattern of patients. The sequale following inadequate sleep is vast, as it can disrupt the homeostasis of the body. Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy might cause only a mobility restriction but its impact on the individual as a whole is not as minor as it seems. The disorder initially starts as an inflammatory tendinitis causing pain within the arc range, however as it progresses, it results in the development of secondary adhesive capsulitis. The capsulitis greatly restricts the global movement of the shoulder,