Epidemiological survey of patients with a carpal tunnel syndrome referred to Sina Hospital in Hamedan during 2014-2016

Ghiasian, Masoud; Khazaei, Mojtaba; Daneshyar, Sajjad; Mazaheri, Shahir; Seyed Gheybi, Seyyed Mohammad

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Volume 21, Issue 5 (Bimonthly 2017)

Feyz Med Sci J 2017, 21(5): 505-498

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Epidemiological survey of patients with a carpal tunnel syndrome referred to Sina Hospital in Hamedan during 2014-2016

Masoud Ghiasian

, Mojtaba Khazaei

, Sajjad Daneshyar ^*

, Shahir Mazaheri

, Seyyed Mohammad Seyed Gheybi

Student Research Committee, Hamedan University of Medical Sciences, Hamedan, I. R. Iran. , s.danshyar72@yahoo.com

Abstract: (13400 Views)

Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome is a common mono-neuropathy with various causes. This study aimed at evaluating the epidemiology of patients with the carpal tunnel syndrome referred to Sina Hospital in Hamedan City, Iran.
Materials and Methods: In this descriptive-cross sectional study, 300 patients (600 hands) suffering from paresthesia, pain and weakness of the first to third finger were studied. Diagnosis and severity of the disease was evaluated according to history, examination and electro-diagnostic studies. Afterall the data were collected.
Results: This study was conducted on 230 (76.7%) females and 70 (23.3%) males with the mean ages of 47.3±17.4 and 49.1±20.2 years, respectively (P=0.224). Sixteen of them were left-handed and the rest were right-handed. Also, 113 of the patients had risk factors such as diabetes with the prevalence of 18.1% and hypothyroidism with 6.4% as the most common ones. The most common occupations were carpet weaving and milking with prevalence rates of 19.4% and 13.3%, respectively. In electro-diagnostic findings, 57% of the patients had moderate involvement and 16.6% had severe involvement. The Phalen and Tinel test was positive in 32.2% of the patients and negative in 32.2% of the cases. There was a relationship between the severity of involvement and probability of a positive Phalen and Tinel test.
Conclusion: Considering that 76% of the cases were women and among jobs, after housekeeping, carpet weaving and milking are the most common ones, paying more attention to these people and designing the proper work tools (especially carpet weaving and milking tools) as well as training of the housewives are recommended to prevent this syndrome.

Keywords: Carpal tunnel syndrome, Epidemiology, Electrodiagnosis

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: medicine, paraclinic
Received: 2017/06/17 | Revised: 2017/11/22 | Accepted: 2017/10/26 | Published: 2017/11/20

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