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May 1, 2015
Nutrition and recovery from carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel and tarsal tunnel release surgeries Have you ever thought about the role of nutrition in healing? Maybe too much emphasis is given to idiosyncratic diets and their effects on lifestyle and longevity for specific ailments. Most of the hoopla with years of…
April 16, 2015
Pronator Syndrome – Have you ever heard of it? Recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome is not common. Perhaps 1:200 to 1:100 patients who undergo carpal tunnel release will get recurrent persistence of carpal tunnel syndrome despite a properly performed carpal tunnel release. In analyzing a person with persistent symptoms after carpal…
April 1, 2015
Carpal tunnel release in patients with nerve conduction studies which are normal. There has been a little bit of a controversy over the years on who is a candidate for surgery of the carpal tunnel. Neurologists have frequently been misguided into thinking that a nerve conduction study is prognostic when,…
January 14, 2015
Is it related to carpal tunnel syndrome? Can the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome eliminate Raynaud’s? These are both good questions. They have been addressed by a few clinicians over the years with progressively better reviews. Raynaud’s phenomenon, constriction of the blood vessels in the hands, can be painful resulting…
June 16, 2014
There is a controversy about how patients treated for carpal tunnel syndrome who depend on being able to operate independently in a wheelchair will come out. A historic article from Ranchos Los Amigos in Los Angeles years ago claimed, in general, a poor result in carpal tunnel release in paraplegics,…
