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  • Title: Sensibility testing in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome.
    Author: Szabo RM, Gelberman RH, Dimick MP.
    Journal: J Bone Joint Surg Am; 1984 Jan; 66(1):60-4. PubMed ID: 6690444.
    Abstract:
    We evaluated the sensibility of the hand preoperatively and at intervals postoperatively in twenty-three hands of twenty patients with idiopathic carpal-tunnel syndrome who underwent carpal tunnel release. Tests of sensibility included the threshold tests (vibrometry, 256-cycles-per-second vibration, and Semmes-Weinstein monofilaments) and one innervation-density test (two-point discrimination). In addition the wrist-flexion test, nerve-percussion test, and tourniquet test were performed preoperatively. Only five of the twenty-three hands had abnormal two-point discrimination and each of these also had markedly abnormal threshold-test values. Nineteen of twenty-three hands preoperatively had decreased sensibility detected by both Semmes-Weinstein monofilament testing and vibrometry. Six weeks after carpal tunnel release, all of the hands demonstrated improvement on threshold testing, and 65 per cent had normal values.
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