Surgically Treated Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Ulnar Nerve Entrapment at the Elbow in Different Occupations and their Effect on Surgical Outcome
Linde, Filippa ; Rydberg, Mattias LU
and Zimmerman, Malin
LU
(2022)
In Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
64(6).
p.369-373
- Abstract
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether certain occupations were over-represented among surgically treated carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar entrapment at the elbow, and if manual occupation affected surgical outcome.
METHODS: We included 9030 patients operated for CTS and 1269 for UNE registered in the Swedish National Quality Register for Hand Surgery (HAKIR) 2010-2016. Occupational data was retrieved from Statistics Sweden. Outcome was assessed using the QuickDASH questionnaire.
RESULTS: In patients operated for CTS, there were more assistant nurses, attendants/care providers/personal assistants, nannies/student assistants, carpenters/bricklayers/construction workers, cleaners, nurses, and vehicle mechanics than in the general... (More)
OBJECTIVE: We investigated whether certain occupations were over-represented among surgically treated carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar entrapment at the elbow, and if manual occupation affected surgical outcome.
METHODS: We included 9030 patients operated for CTS and 1269 for UNE registered in the Swedish National Quality Register for Hand Surgery (HAKIR) 2010-2016. Occupational data was retrieved from Statistics Sweden. Outcome was assessed using the QuickDASH questionnaire.
RESULTS: In patients operated for CTS, there were more assistant nurses, attendants/care providers/personal assistants, nannies/student assistants, carpenters/bricklayers/construction workers, cleaners, nurses, and vehicle mechanics than in the general population. In the UNE population, assistant nurses and attendants/care providers/personal assistants were over-represented. Manual workers with CTS scored the preoperative QuickDASH higher than non-manual workers.
CONCLUSIONS: Manual workers are overrepresented among surgically treated CTS and UNE. Manual workers with CTS have more symptoms preoperatively than non-manual workers.
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- author
- Linde, Filippa
; Rydberg, Mattias
LU
and Zimmerman, Malin
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome/epidemiology, Elbow, Humans, Occupations, Treatment Outcome, Ulnar Nerve Compression Syndromes/surgery
- in
- Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
- volume
- 64
- issue
- 6
- pages
- 369 - 373
- publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85133102913
- pmid:35543630
- ISSN
- 1536-5948
- DOI
- 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002539
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. on behalf of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
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- 85efb681-0894-413b-8666-fd7c987c4727
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- 2022-10-13 15:55:31
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