One-year incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome in Latino poultry processing workers and other Latino manual workers
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One-year incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome in Latino poultry processing workers and other Latino manual workers.
OBJECTIVE To determine the incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) over 1 year in Latino poultry processing workers. METHODS Symptoms and nerve conduction studies were used to identify Latino poultry processing workers (106 wrists) and Latinos in other manual labor occupations (257 wrists) that did not have CTS at baseline, and these individuals were then evaluated in the same manner 1 year...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Industrial Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0271-3586
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.22250