A Comparative Study of Carpal Tunnel Compliance
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INTRODUCTION: Clinical studies of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), a pressure-induced neuropathy of the median nerve, are limited by the difficulty of evaluating the early stages of pathology. Thus, a validated animal model of CTS is an important need. A proper animal model would have comparable anatomy to the human carpal tunnel. In addition, because carpal tunnel syndrome is characterized by increased carpal tunnel pressure, the carpal tunnel of the animal model should have mechanical characteristics similar to the human carpal tunnel. Compliance of the carpal tunnel directly affects the pressure alteration. Thus, it is important to know if the compliance of animal carpal tunnels is comparable to that of the human carpal tunnel. The objective of this study was to measure the compliance of the carpal tunnel in candidate animal models of CTS. The null hypothesis was that the compliance of the carpal tunnels of the various species was not different.
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