Wrists

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I've had symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome for nearly a year, and it's starting to affect my work. How effective is treatment? What are the risks of not treating it? Will it continue to get worse, or does the damage level off at some...

A few decades ago — before computers or checkout scanners — few people had heard of a rare condition called carpal tunnel syndrome. Today, in many offices, wrist splints are as common as Post-it notes. So, how do we keep this modern problem at...

Most people have heard of carpal tunnel syndrome, and likely even know someone who suffers from it. Cubital tunnel syndrome is less common but also can cause debilitating symptoms, such as numbness in the ring and little fingers and wasting of muscle in...

Maybe your wrists and fingers swell when you leave work. Or maybe they ache or go numb in the middle of the night. Sounds as if you've been messing with your carpal tunnel — that tiny tunnel in your wrist where the median nerve, flexor muscles...

Kobe Bryant's wrist: An orthopedic surgeon at Mount Sinai School of Medicine discusses Kobe Bryant's wrist injury....

A lifelong passion -- broken away in an instant. With a tiny camera and 10 screws, an innovative surgeon used medicine to bring back the music. From the time she was a little girl, Donna Milanovich Srajer had music running through her body. But a fall on...

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome affects millions of Americans. According to the U.S. Dept of Labor, it costs two billion dollars a year in time lost from work. But now there's a new procedure giving sufferers relief from the pain and numbness that follows them...

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