Advance on risk factors of occupational carpal tunnel syndrome
10.3760/cma.j.cn121094-20240119-00028
- VernacularTitle:职业性腕管综合征的风险因素研究进展
- Author:
Yiran ZHAO
1
;
Yimu ZHENG
1
;
Li GUAN
1
Author Information
1. 北京大学第三医院职业病科，北京 100191
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Musculoskeletal system;
Work-related musculoskeleted disorders;
Carpal tunnel syndrome;
Occupational risk factors;
Individual risk factors;
Risk prevention
- From:
Chinese Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Diseases
2025;43(2):156-160
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
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.
