Work-Related Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: The Facts and the Myths

Clinics in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 353-367

  Derebery, Jane ^a  

^a Concentra Health Services ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROTOXIN;

CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; KEYBOARD; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 33645929410     PISSN: 15260046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coem.2005.11.014     Document Type: Review

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