Analysis of the relationships between electroneurography and boston questionnaire in obese female patients with carpal tunnel syndrome

Objective: the aim of the study was to clarify the relationships between electroneurography (eng) and boston questionnaire (bq) in patients with carpal tunnel syndrome (cts). material-method: one hundred and forty-one patients with cts were enrolled to this study. the demographic data as age, gender, body mass index, symptoms duration and night pain of the patients were recorded. tinel and phalen tests were noted as positive or negative. the scores of the bq symptom severity scale (sss) and the functional status scale (fss) were measured. pain was assessed on visual analog scale (vas). motor and antidromic sensory conduction velocities of the median and ulnar nerves were performed. patients were divided to three groups as mild, moderate and severe cts according to the eng outcomes. result: the scores of the vas pain and the bq-fss and sss were found to be significantly higher in patients with moderate and severe cts compared to those in mild cts (p<0.005). the scores of bq-fss and sss were correlated moderately with the duration of symptoms, median sensory nerve action potential (snap)-palm and second digit and strongly with vas pain (p<0.05). it was found that bq-sss scores also correlated moderately with median distal motor latency(dml), and sensory nerve conduction velocity(scnv)-palm and second digit (p<0.05). conclusion: the patients who have different clinical findings however similar pictures may be interpreted in the light of these results. when the clinician meet decreased median snap or elevated median dml and scnv, he/she should be careful on both the symptom severity and functional impairment or functional deficiency alone respectively.