Ms. Zhang is the office secretary, 40 years old this year, most recently when the night feel the thumb, index finger, middle finger numbness, pain, and sometimes because of numbness in his sleep, woke up in pain. She worried about stroke precursors, to the hospital were diagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is due within the median nerve in the carpal tunnel are caused by the pressure and stimulate the appropriate clinical symptoms, occurs in the office 30 to 50-year-old female, female to male incidence of 5 to 6 times. In the modern, frequent use of both hands caused by wrist strain is an important etiology.
Carpal tunnel syndrome manifested as wrist, radial side of the palm, thumb, index finger, middle finger numbness, pain, feeling diminished or disappeared, the symptoms at night or early morning, which may provide radiation to the elbow, shoulder, and walk away after activities to reduce serious are visible thenar muscle atrophy, paralysis.
Carpal tunnel syndrome carpal tunnel closure therapy can be used with steroids and procaine, and carpal tunnel injection, while taking anti-inflammatory analgesic drugs. Symptoms were, with plaster or splint the wrist slightly dorsiflexed position at 1 ~ 2 weeks. For non-surgical treatment fails and symptoms of increased or thenar muscle atrophy, early surgical treatment should be to cut off the transverse carpal ligament to relieve the pressure on the median nerve.
Carpal tunnel syndrome prevention should be noted that self-protection at work, for people who often use computers to operate as flat wrist posture when operating the keyboard and mouse, not bending without sagging; over a period of time to rest, activity events wrist.
Cheng Huaimeng