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Surgery Beats Splints For Carpal Tunnel

Posted by timothy on from the no-fun-either-way dept.

Rio writes: "A local6.com article tells us about a study that suggests surgery may be more effective than splints for treating carpal tunnel syndrome. In the study, 87 patients underwent open carpal tunnel release surgery, in which ligaments surrounding the median nerve are cut to relieve pressure on the nerve, compared to 89 patients who wore a splint for their wrists, which reduced movement. The researchers found that the surgery left 80 percent of patients significantly improved after three months. Splints left only 54 percent significantly improved."

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  1. Which keyboards are the best for preventing Carpal by one9nine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Funny this article should appear today, last night I couldn't get to sleep because of a really sharp, throbbing pain in my wrist.

    Does anybody use ergonomic keyboards at home or work? Which ones are the most recommended? I had a Microsoft ergonomic keyboard at work and thought it worked fairly well. In particular, I was hoping to get some feedback on the Kinesis Contour keyboard. It's way more expensive ($239 to start) than the Microsoft keyboards so I wanted to see if anybody had success with it (or even liked typing with it since it is so different) before I purchased one.

    Oh, and does anybody use the Dvorak layout?