Summary:
The objective of the presented study was to motile that cumulative trauma disorders of the upper extremities in
recent years leads to a rising morbidity and applications for compensation for occupational diseases. This rise is
probably not associated with an increase of this disorder but a different awareness of workers and doctors as regards
the possible adverse effect of forceful and frequently repeated movements of the upper extremities on their function,
extended diagnostics and notification. It is important to master the diagnosis of these diseases and interpretation of
auxiliary examinations to prevent inadequate payment of damages to the affected subjects and on the other hand to
prevent breakdown or in adequate function of the financial provisions in this area. A number of syndromes of the
mentioned conditions has very few objective symptoms and abnormal results of auxiliary examinations. The diagnosis
of stenotic syndromes has as compared with other disorders great support in electrophysiological techniques, their
high sensitivity and specificity (1, 15). The authors discuss therefore their problems and suggest electrophysiological
criteria of medium grade affections in the carpal tunnel syndrome which is the condition for compensation for
occupational disease and which so far was defined only roughly in this country.
Key words:
neuropathy, entrapment neuropathies of the upper extremities, cumulative trauma clisorders occupa-
tional diseases.
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