Abstracts of the 8th Meeting of the Italian Peripheral Nerve Study Group: 32

Abstract

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a well‐known entrapment disease. Recently, many study allowed us to improve our knowledge on CTS. Nevertheless many other topics on this common entrapment are not thoroughly assessed. The Italian CTS Study Group performed a multicenter (11 centers) survey study on more than 500 CTS hands with a large, multi‐perspective and multi‐measurement assessment. We used validated clinical, neurophysiological, and patient‐oriented measurements of CTS. In this study we assessed the following issues: 1) It is well known that menopause is related with CTS but no studies evaluated the clinical relationship between the entrapment and the clinical condition. 2) It is still matter of debate if alcohol may be related with CTS. 3) Someone hypothesized that computer pointing devices (mouse and keyboards) may cause CTS. 4) It is well known that patients with CTS complain of partial disability of the hand with frequent falling objects, but no study evaluated this important aspect in daily activity and related with the severity of the disease. Further issues, acquired through the database were assessed. Multi‐perspective and multi‐measurement assessment, even by using validated patient‐oriented tool, provided interesting information confirming and clarifying some poorly studied aspects often observed in CTS patients.