of Pain in Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Compressive Neuropathies


Determinants of Pain in Patients with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome


Nunez F, Vranceanu A-M, Ring D (Massachusetts General Hosp/Harvard Med School, Boston) Clin Orthop Relat Res 468:3328-3332, 2010§



T.B. Hughes, MD



Evidence Ranking


• B



Expert Rating


• 2



Abstract



Background


Carpal tunnel syndrome causes numbness, weakness, and atrophy. Pain without numbness is not characteristic of this disease.



Questions/Purposes


We tested the hypothesis that among patients with carpal tunnel syndrome confirmed by electrophysiologic testing, pain catastrophizing and/or depression would be good predictors of pain intensity at the time of diagnosis, whereas nerve conduction velocity would not.



Patients and Methods

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