What are the different CTS symptoms?

There are a variety of CTS symptoms. The most common CTS symptoms include pain, numbness, and tingling along those portions of the wrist, hand, and fingers, innervated by the median nerve. There may also be weakness of grasp and pinch resulting in clumsiness and the tendency to drop objects. Lastly, there may be shooting or referred pain from the hand to the elbow and shoulder. Symptoms are usually worse at night and as the condition worsens may remain throughout the day. The more common CTS symptoms include decreased sensation of the thumb, index, long, and lateral half of the ring fingers and palm, atrophy of the thenar eminence (the fleshy area located between the thumb and wrist comprised of the three thumb muscles,) a positive Phalen's sign or pinch test, decreased nerve conduction velocity of the median nerve, and abnormal EMG of the thenar muscles.



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