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Pregnant women working outside the home may be more likely than their homemaker counterparts to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, Dr. Glen D. Seidman said at the joint annual meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the American Society of Hand Therapists.
Previous studies have shown that carpel tunnel syndrome (CTS) during pregnancy and lactation has been shown to be associated with elevated estrogen levels, but this effect is not well established in the literature. "We wanted to know how high estrogen contributes to a woman's developing CTS," noted Dr. Seidman of South Shore Orthopedic Associates, South Weymouth, Mass.
Screening of 1,926 pregnant women scheduled to deliver within a 6-month period showed that 230 women (12%) had CTS symptoms. The ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Carpal tunnel in pregnancy tied to workplace.(Obstetrics)