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Not All Wrist Pain is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Posted by Roblimo on from the all-I-know-is-that-it-hurts dept.

Lust writes "CNN has an article summarizing a study recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Assoc concerning carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) and its frequency in the general population. One of the most important points was the last paragraph of the article: "[Nerve conduction velocity] testing showed only 70 percent sensitivity among subjects with a diagnosis of CTS based on history and physical examination and a high rate of false-positive results (approximately 76 percent). Practitioners need to recognize these limitations and work to overcome them." "

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  1. Re:offtopic, but just too curious.. by ajlitt · · Score: 3

    Agreed. I don't even think it was a hoax; just that the author was blowing a little bit of smoke. I can't for the life of me see running at 115kbps on a PIC (I've tried it with a 4MHz 16C84 long ago, and could crank out no more than 19.2kbps without drops, and that's with writing the data directly to an external eeprom), and I surely doubt that it can do all of RFC1122 (what about 1123? huh? Those are supposed to be implemented in tandem). However, SLIP is very simple (could take 10 words of code) and 512 words on a PIC goes very far.

    I'll believe it when I see code....


    ...but I digress. Shame on you, moderators! You'd post two articles hawking X10 giveaways but something of at least some technical merit you remove without a trace even if it is a joke?

  2. Book on repetative stress injury by paul+r · · Score: 3

    CTS is just the tip of the repetative strain iceburg, all sorts of things can cause pain from overuse. There is an excellent book called Repetitive Strain Injury : A Computer User's Guide by Pascarelli and Quilter.

    This book talks about all sorts of things from symptoms to how to recover, both physically as well as some mental issues as well. I found it at the library and found it to be very enlightening. Even if you're without pain a little education could very well keep you that way. If you're already having problems it's a must read.

    As a sidenote after the article on this a few months ago I went out and got a Kinesis keyboard, it's made a big difference. What an excellent keybaord, well worth the price.