This last statement is very important to you, because there is something called a double As you can see here, this is the median nerve coming down and basically the distal most aspect of the median nerve is what is affected in a carpal tunnel syndrome. There is a delineation between the palmar aspect of the sensory and the finger sensory portion on the palmar aspect of the hand. Now the prevalence of carpal tunnel is 55 to 125 cases per 100,000. Although sometimes in my practice I think it is a little higher than that. It is the most common nerve entrapment.
Females are more at risk.
It is a 3 to 1 ratio, females having carpal tunnel as opposed to males. Repetitive activity involving the wrist is a very high risk and also, recently the squareness of the wrist is a very There is a classification for carpal tunnel syndrome, and we start out with early and its numbness, parasthesia, pain in the median nerve distribution. Symptoms are intermittent and worse at night, shaking the wrist out in the middle of the night is common. Intermediate is continuously diminished sensation in the median nerve distribution. There is reduced ability to manipulate fine objects and The advantage of surgical decompression of the transverse carpal ligament is promoted, but here is where some of the controversy comes in with carpal tunnel syndrome.