Question

Which of the following might provoke symptoms in a worker suffering from CTS? List in order most likely to least likely.

• Rapid data entry

• Plucking a chicken

• Playing a guitar

• Kneading dough

• Painting a ceiling State your reasons, very briefly, and justify the order you have chosen. Describe two personal characteristics of a worker that might cause symptoms to develop

Answer 1

1. Kneading dough
2. Plucking a chicken
3. Painting a ceiling
4. Playing guitar
5. Rapid data entry

Carpel tunnel syndrome is a numbness and tingling in the hand and arm caused by a pinched nerve in the wrist

• Occupation involving prolonged or repeated flexion and extension of the wrist find higher risk for CTS
• In case of kneading the dough more flexion and extension than others and studies shows more among food processor s
• Plucking chicken also uses more stree but less than that of kneading dough
• In case of playing Guitar could involve wrist movement and causing cts
• Rapid data entry is only causing less forms of effect