An overview of hand postures and aging on morphological changes of the median nerve

BACKGROUND: High-resolution ultrasound is being widely used in carpal tunnel examination to understand morphological and biomechanical characteristics of the median nerve and surrounding anatomy structures. MAIN BODY: Healthy young and elderly men were recruited. The median nerve at proximal wrist r...

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Autores principales: Loh, Ping Yeap, Yeoh, Wen Liang, Muraki, Satoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Short Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31395098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40101-019-0201-6
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description BACKGROUND: High-resolution ultrasound is being widely used in carpal tunnel examination to understand morphological and biomechanical characteristics of the median nerve and surrounding anatomy structures. MAIN BODY: Healthy young and elderly men were recruited. The median nerve at proximal wrist region was examined by ultrasound imaging technique. A total of seven wrist angle was examined. Generally, the median nerve cross-sectional area of the elderly group is significantly larger than the young group. SHORT CONCLUSION: Wrist posture in greater flexion or extension caused a larger decrease in the median nerve cross-sectional area across both groups.
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spelling pubmed-66882042019-08-14 An overview of hand postures and aging on morphological changes of the median nerve Loh, Ping Yeap Yeoh, Wen Liang Muraki, Satoshi J Physiol Anthropol Short Report BACKGROUND: High-resolution ultrasound is being widely used in carpal tunnel examination to understand morphological and biomechanical characteristics of the median nerve and surrounding anatomy structures. MAIN BODY: Healthy young and elderly men were recruited. The median nerve at proximal wrist region was examined by ultrasound imaging technique. A total of seven wrist angle was examined. Generally, the median nerve cross-sectional area of the elderly group is significantly larger than the young group. SHORT CONCLUSION: Wrist posture in greater flexion or extension caused a larger decrease in the median nerve cross-sectional area across both groups. BioMed Central 2019-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6688204/ /pubmed/31395098 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40101-019-0201-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6688204/
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