Carpal Tunnel Release Outcome in Worker’s Compensation Patients
January 6, 2020
Carpal Tunnel Release Outcome in Worker’s Compensation Patients
Research shows ultrasound therapy adds NO BENEFIT to splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome
November 11, 2019
Research shows ultrasound therapy adds NO BENEFIT to splinting for carpal tunnel syndrome 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…
Opioid Use Among Hand Surgery Patients
August 16, 2019
Opioid Use Among Hand Surgery Patients 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…
Cryoneurolysis to Treat the Pain and Symptoms of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Multi-Center, Randomized, Double-Blind, Sham-Controlled Trial
July 22, 2019
Cryoneurolysis to Treat the Pain and Symptoms of Knee Osteoarthritis 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…
Nerve Conduction Study vs. Ultrasonography in Electrodiagnostic Evaluation of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
July 16, 2019
Nerve Conduction Study vs. Ultrasonography 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…