The eight small and complexly shaped carpal bones of the wrist articulate in six degrees of freedom with each other and to some extent with the radius and the metacarpals. With the increasing number and sophistication of studies of the carpus, a standardized definition for a coordinate system for each the carpal bones would aid in the reporting and comparison of findings. This paper presents a ...

We have read the case report of Oge et al. with interest (2). They evaluated the carpal tunnel range/carpal tunnel area ratio among patients with carpal tunnel syndrome and the control group, together with the median nerve area and its palmar bowing of the transverse carpal ligament. An increase in the ratio of carpal tunnel range/carpal tunnel area were detected in patients with carpal tunnel ...

The objective of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness and provide a limited economic evaluation of an office ergonomics program at a major university from 1995 to 2007. The relationship between office-related recordable injuries, reported lost time, severity of these injuries, and the Workers' Compensation (WC) paid was analyzed and the corresponding incident cost was calculated. Two...

Worker-generated claims-reporting moral hazard is said to occur when, in order to collect workers’ compensation benefits, workers report on-the-job injuries that never occurred or that occurred off the job. Using newly available injury micro data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on all cases with days away from work, this article assesses the hypothesis that claims-reporting moral hazard is ...

Everyday medical practice shows that most common problems within the hand result from overload, injuries and degeneration. Dorsal side pathologies such as de Quervain's and Wartenberg's disease, intersection syndrome or degenerative lesions of carpometa-carpal joint of the thumb discussed in the paper can be accurately diagnosed and differentiated by means of ultrasound examination. Ultrasound ...

BACKGROUND *Equal contributors.Planar bone scintigraphy (PBS) is often advocated for diagnosing occult scaphoid fractures. PBS is a sensitive diagnostic modality, but lacks specificity, which may result in over-diagnosis. PURPOSE To examine, in a pilot study, the potential additional value of single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) combined with low dose computed tomography (CT) fo...

Hand injuries contribute a considerable workload for any individual accident and emergency department. Not many studies are found in the Indian literature as far as the epidemiology of hand fractures is concerned. A prospective survey of the medical charts of all 10,977 patients attending the accident and emergency department of the Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, from August 1, 2004, to Jul...

Various patterns of traumatic carpal injury have been described in the literature. Although the combination of scaphoid fracture and scapholunate ligament rupture in the same injury has been reported and these lesions can no longer be considered mutually exclusive, little information is available on management methods and the long-term results of such seemingly paradoxical complex injuries. Thi...