Carpal Tunnel Release Outcome in Worker’s Compensation Patients
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January 6, 2020
Jung, et al., in Hand 2018, Vol. 13, pages 137-142, published a meta-analysis (comparison of data in the literature) on private, i.e. non-work-related, and worker’s compensation-treated patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. They found that worker’s compensation patients took almost five weeks longer to return to work and were 16% less…
November 11, 2019
A recent article in Muscle & Nerve, 2019, Vol. 6, by Jothi and Bland, just published solely involved 20 people with use of a splint and ultrasound and 20 people with the splint and no ultrasound. It showed no added benefit in the symptomatic relief gained with the use of…
August 16, 2019
There has recently been a load of attention given to opioid use and abuse in the United States. There is evidence that most patients are being given a lot more medication than they have required to treat potential postoperative pain. In a large study reported in the Journal of Hand…
July 22, 2019
By R. Radnovich, MD, et al. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage, Vol. 25, (2017): 47-1256. This over-verbose, prospective study involved 180 patients with degenerative arthritis of the knee taken off NSAIDs and supplements, etc. for pain. Fifty-nine of them were in the sham group, i.e. controls, plus each person had their opposite…
July 16, 2019
The ultrasound marketers are really pushing the possible use of ultrasound in diagnosis of nerve entrapment. Nerve conduction study, however, has the advantage of many years of use in having established itself as a very useful tool in the objective evaluation of nerve entrapment. Ultrasound on the other hand is…
