Title: The Relationship of the Cervical Lesion to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Abstract: This prospective study was designed to evaluate electrophysiological changes in the peripheral nerve, especially in the median nerve at the wrist, of the patients with a cervical lesion. We examined the motor nerve conduction velocity of the median nerve at the forearm, the amplitude of the M wave recorded from abductor pollicis brevis muscle and the distal motor latency of the median and ulnar nerve. The distal motor latency of the median nerve was significantlly prolonged in the patients with cervical lesions compared with the normal control group (p<0.01).