One of the most common complaints in the United States nowadays is patients coming to the office and saying their wrists hurt.

And it makes sense.

So many patients are actually doing jobs in which their phones, their computers are a big component of their day-to-day lives.

And it's not just those whose jobs are reliant upon electronics, it's also going to affect patients

who have repetitive hand movement jobs. Whether it's the swish and flick

with Vanguarde and those at Hogwarts or perhaps a Jedi who's just practicing how to

use a lightsaber or maybe it's just somebody who works in health care and they have to do a lot of

charting and a lot of IV placing. Whatever the reason, whatever the cause, whatever the ideology,

risk pain is becoming more prevalent in the United States. And so with that, I,

Dr. Nakedzon-Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist and gas trentrologist are going to be covering

carpal tunnel syndrome. So let's fire up the music and find out what we can do for all that pain. Now, carpal tunnel syndrome is a very common disorder. It turns out that it's extremely common,

with rates going anywhere between 1% to 5%.

And what's interesting is that studies of American workers

actually report that they have higher rates than studies outside the U.S.

Now could this be because all of us muggles are waiting for our letter from Hogwarts or

is it just because of the fact that those other studies haven't taken into account

or are possibly older and the fact that

we are becoming much more reliant on electronic equipment.

We talked previously about texting thumb or basically dequarevain's ten acetovitis, which is becoming more common.

It used to be called Blackberry Thumb, and now it's just

video gamer's thumb.

The same thing must be happening with carpal tunnel syndrome, and I'm sure the data needs to be

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