Background Conclusive evidence indicating an effective treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a common entrapment neuropathy, is lacking. Ultrasound therapy (US therapy) has long been used as ...

Sufferers of a common and agonising wrist condition that takes years to heal could get a pioneering new procedure that eradicates pain in minutes. More than 340,000 people in the UK suffer with ...

Imaging tests (ultrasound and MRI), while still having ... especially in the absence of well-defined symptoms. Carpal tunnel syndrome is diagnosed in the presence of primary symptoms, which ...

FOND DU LAC — Very few doctors conduct carpal tunnel surgery with minimal invasion and recovery time, but SSM Health Fond du Lac Regional Clinic plastic surgeon Richard Schaefer recently treated ...

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS ... One significant area of research has been the use of ultrasound imaging for diagnosing CTS. An umbrella review of multiple studies found that measuring the cross ...

To improve the functional status of CTS patients, a combination of ultrasound therapy and a wrist orthosis may be more effective than a combination of paraffin therapy and a wrist orthosis.