Health-related quality of life 5 years after carpal tunnel release among patients with diabetes: a prospective study with matched controls.

Summary, in English

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy encountered in diabetes. The short-term improvement after carpal tunnel release has previously been demonstrated not to differ between patients with and without diabetes, despite a marked impairment in health-related quality of life (HRQL) among the former. In this study, we compare HRQL 5 years after carpal tunnel release between these two groups of patients.

• Author: Niels Thomsen; Jonas Björk; Ragnhild Cederlund
• Department/s: Hand Surgery, Malmö; Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University; Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective; EpiHealth: Epidemiology for Health
• Publishing year: 2014
• Language: English
• Publication/Series: BMC Endocrine Disorders
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Full text: - 177 kB; Download statistics
• Links: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25326166?dopt=Abstract; http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6823-14-85
• Document type: Journal article
• Publisher: BioMed Central (BMC)
• Topic: Occupational Therapy; Surgery
• Status: Published
• Research group: Hand Surgery, Malmö; Sustainable occupations and health in a life course perspective
• ISBN/ISSN/Other: ISSN: 1472-6823