Sleep-related disorders in carpal tunnel syndrome

Autor: H. Lauerma, Mikko Hurme, I. Lehtinen, T. Kirjavainen, E. Rauhala, K. Martikainen
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. 93:360-365
ISSN: 1600-0404
0001-6314
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0404.1996.tb00010.x
Popis: Introduction - Patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) often wake up at night due to pain and numbness of affected fingers and hand. We studied the sleep disorder caused by CTS. Subjects and methods - 34 consecutive patients referred for operative treatment of CTS answered to a sleep questionnaire and the results were compared to a stratified random sample of 1600 Finns aged 36-50 year, whose response rate to the mailed questionnaires was 75.2% (n=1186). Six CTS patients underwent a polygraphic sleep study before and after operative treatment of CTS. Results - CTS patients reported suffering from poor sleep quality, fragmentary sleep and daytime sleepiness more often than controls. Before operative treatment of CTS there were more nocturnal body movements (p
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