How an Early Case of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Could Have Prevented More Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but Ended Up Creating More…
Carpal tunnel syndrome is commonly considered an “over-use syndrome”. Repetitive activities may aggravate compression of the median nerve in the wrist by the transverse carpal ligament, manifesting as pain, tingling, numbness, and/or weakness of the hand. Chronic handwriting or computer typing can provoke the symptoms. In the 1930s after the Great Depression, Chester Carlson was…