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6healthy volunteers
The 2001 glove study tested the glove in six healthy volunteers, in a random order with and without the glove, during a 30-minute compression of the carpal tunnel.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“performed with and without glove in a random order on six healthy volunteers”
Protective effect of glove on median nerve compression in the carpal tunnel, Deltombe T et al., Spinal Cord, 2001, Methods.
Open the original- What it measures
- Researchers at a Belgian rehabilitation department applied an external compression to the carpal tunnel for 30 minutes, once with a gel-padded glove and once without, in random order.
- What it does not show
- Six people is a very small sample. The volunteers had no carpal tunnel syndrome, and the compression was applied by the researchers, not produced by typing.