Course Description:

This course provides rehab professionals with up-to-date, evidenced-based information to understand and successfully manage patients who have been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome. It discusses applied anatomy, basic pathophysiology of distal median nerve compression, risk factors and contributing causes, demographics, and commonly occurring complications and co-morbidities. It also provides an in-depth discussion of evaluation and conservative treatment options for carpal tunnel syndrome, based on current literature findings, as well as surgical intervention and post-surgical rehabilitation. This course will be immediately useful in clinical practice.