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Harvard Study: Carpal Tunnel Not Caused by Computer Use

National News • December 15, 2005
A new report from Harvard Medical School refutes the common assumption that computer use causes carpal tunnel syndrome. Instead, says this report edited by Harvard-based hand experts, carpal ...

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Posted On: December 15, 2005, 6:50 pm CST
Posted By: Been there also
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I have spent over 30 years working in occupational health. For many of these jobs, I worked with large populations that had high repetative wrist duties. Why is it that only a small percentage get these problems? Why is it that people who use predominanently one hand get bilateral carpal tunnel?

I have had both of my wrists operated on for carpal tunnel. Neith of these was caused by typing. Both of my siblings and my father have had carpal tunnel that was surgically treated and has never come back (if the diagnosis is truly Carpal Tunnel and the surgery is done correctly, there should not be anything that would cause a reoccurance.)

Issue I have is we forget that 50 years ago we had a good list of risk factors for carpal tunnel (predominantly female, over forty, over weight, or with medical issues such as thyroid or diabetes disease.

Today, we don't look at these, we look at if the person types.
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