A Tablet-Based App for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Screening: Diagnostic Case-Control Study.

Koji Fujita Takuro Watanabe Tomoyuki Kuroiwa Toru Sasaki Akimoto Nimura Yuta Sugiura

Published in: JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2019)

Our newly developed app could classify disturbance of thumb opposition movement and could be useful as a screening test for CTS patients. Outside of the clinic, this app might be able to detect middle-to-severe-stage CTS and prompt these patients to visit a hand surgery specialist; this may also lead to medical cost-savings.

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