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A Comparison of Occupational Carpal Tunnel Syndromes Notified in the Czech Republic and in the U.S.A.
Authors: Pavel Urban; Eckardt Johanning 1; Edgar Lukáš; Anne Tencza 1
Authors‘ workplace: Centrum hygieny práce a nemocí z povolání SZÚ, Praha, vedoucí prof. MUDr. M. Cikrt, DrSc. 1 Eastern NY Occupational Health Program, Albany, NY, Director E. Johanning, MD, PhD.
Published in: Pracov. Lék., , 1998, No. 4, s. 175-180.
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The authors compared a group of 54 patients having been notified as suffering from the occupati - onal carpal tunnel syndrome by the Clinic of Occupational Diseases, General University Hospital in Prague with a group of 38 patients, where the syndrome was notified by the Clinic of Occupati - onal Diseases in Albany, New York, U.S.A. The group of patients examined in Prague included significantly more men (61% versus 21%, p
Key words:
carpal tunnel syndrome, overload, RSI, EMG
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Hygiene and epidemiology Hyperbaric medicine Occupational medicine
Article was published inOccupational Medicine
1998 Issue 4
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