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Fighting Carpal Tunnel w/Data, Pegboard
gadgets.boingboing.net - 7/9/2009
Fighting Carpal Tunnel w/Data, Pegboard
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Doctors may soon use devices like this to obtain precise measurements of hand muscle strength. Developed by bioengineering students at Rice University, the unit promises to present docs with actual hard data that will lead to swifter diagnoses, especially carpal tunnel syndrome. (Many health ...

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Pegboard Device Sinks Carpal Tunnel's Battleship [Health]
Gizmodo — ... gets the peak force," Xu said. "Then the doctor can create a patient-specific file with all your information, time-stamped, and record every single measurement.". Apparently, most of the tests for carpal tunnel are subjective—so improving accuracy and providing detailed patient-specific information will be helpful for sufferers in the future. It's a good thing too, because in this line of work I will need all the help I can get. [Medgadget via Boing Boing Gadgets] ...

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