Peer-reviewed research
Long term follow-up of carpal tunnel syndrome during pregnancy: a cohort study and review of the literature
Mauro Mondelli et al., Electromyography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 2007
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- What it is
- An Italian cohort of 45 consecutive pregnant women with carpal tunnel syndrome, followed by questionnaire and nerve tests during pregnancy, at one year after delivery and by telephone at three years, with a review of earlier studies.
- How much weight it carries
- Peer-reviewed. The cohort is small, comes from one clinic, and the three-year follow-up relied on a telephone questionnaire. It is still one of the few studies to follow women for years after delivery.
Facts taken from this source
- In this pregnancy cohort, about half of the women still complained of carpal tunnel symptoms three years after delivery, although their scores had improved from the start.
“but about half the women still complained of symptoms 3 years after delivery” (Abstract, Conclusion)
- One year after delivery, the median nerve's sensory conduction remained delayed in 84 percent of women with carpal tunnel syndrome that began in pregnancy, even though their symptoms had improved.
“Despite improvement of symptoms, distal sensory conduction velocity of the median nerve improved but remained delayed in 84% of women one year after delivery.” (Abstract)