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Poster Receives First Place at SDMS Conference
October 14, 2017

Our team has begun evaluating the dynamic movement of the median nerve in the carpal tunnel during active finger motion involved in gripping. With the support of Ariana Cristino, an undergraduate volunteer, we established reliability for our analysis protocol and gathered preliminary findings in 51 of our 159 participants. These findings for changes in the shape of the nerve, as well as the direction and amount of movement of the nerve during grip were presented in a poster at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography. The poster (photo below), presented by Dr. Roll and Jennifer Alberts, RDMS, received first place in the sonographer poster competition.

The protocol developed for this preliminary analysis is now being deployed across our full data-set to identify metrics that can be used as potential risk factors in our longitudinal modeling of the development of carpal tunnel syndrome.