[Advance on risk factors of occupational carpal tunnel syndrome].

Abstract

Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common peripheral nerve compression syndrome and a well-studied form of nerve entrapment syndrome as well. According to the etiology, the risk factors can be divided into individual risk factors and occupational risk factors. Individual risk factors include older age, gender (female), pregnancy, family history, hypothyroidism, diabetes, autoimmune diseases, advanced age, obesity, and wrist trauma, they are also associated with abnormal in the shapes and structures of the wist canal bones and tissues in individuals carpal tunnel bones and tissues. Occupational risk factors include the working posture of hands and wrists, work intensity, and tools, etc., that have attracted more and more attention from occupational disease prevention and control experts and management departments. In addition, the latest research also indicates that social psychosocial factors may also be an important factor in the occurrence and development of carpal tunnel syndrome. Therefore, it is necessary to actively carry out the prevention of occupational carpal tunnel syndrome, reduce the risk of the disease among workers and detect clinical symptoms as early as possible and intervene in time.