CTS Questions and answers, 100% Accurate. Graded A+

CTS Questions and answers, 100%
Accurate. Graded A+

carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) - ✔✔-Compression of median nerve as a result of repetitive motion or
acute trauma



Risk factors CTS - ✔✔--Repetitive use of wrists

-female

-pregnancy

-menopause



What does CTS impair? - ✔✔-Sensory transmission to thumb, index finger, middle finger, radial side of
ring finger



Test for CTS - ✔✔--phalen's

-reverse phalen's

-tinel's



Phalen's test - ✔✔-Fully flex wrist for 1 minute (increases internal carpal tunnel pressure)



Reverse phalen's test - ✔✔-Fully extend wrist for 1 minutes (combo of increased internal carpal tunnel
pressure plus stretches median nerve)



Tinel's test - ✔✔-Percussion over the median nerve at the wrist from distal to proximal



Conservative treatment CTS - ✔✔--Splinting (wrist in 0-15 degrees of extension)

-tendon gliding

-modalities