Week Two A

A person who had been diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome came in to the clinic for follow up treatment. He is planning on seeing a specialist in a couple of weeks to see options for surgery. The main aim at the moment for this patient is to increase flexibility and length of the flexor retinaculum to decrease pressure on the median nerve.

Even though the patient had already been diagnosed I was asked to do a couple of tests to confirm it and ask a few questions. I felt fairly confident with this because I knew the main tests to do and I knew a few questions to ask. However I think that I could have been smoother in my questioning even though I asked all the right things.

I think I should review the order into which I do my history taking and make sure I know it back to front. Yet, I think the outcome of this patient was good and I thought I did well considering it was the first wrist patient I had seen in less than two weeks.