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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a nerve condition caused by pressure on the median nerve inside your wrist. It produces numbness, tingling, and pain in the thumb, index, middle, and part of the ring finger \u2014 often worsening at night or after long hours of typing. Early treatment with wrist splints, physiotherapy, or a specialist consultation can prevent permanent nerve damage.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

If your fingers go numb halfway through a workday or your wrist aches after hours on a laptop, you’re not alone. Across Lahore’s and Karachi’s busy office districts, this complaint has become one of the most common reasons young professionals seek a doctor. The tingling is easy to dismiss as tiredness \u2014 but it often isn’t.<\/p>\n

A 2024 study published in the Biological and Clinical Sciences Research Journal<\/em> found a significantly high prevalence of clinically confirmed carpal tunnel syndrome among office workers in Punjab, Pakistan, directly linked to prolonged computer use and repetitive wrist postures. A separate cross-sectional study of 179 private-sector employees in Lahore \u2014 all using keyboards for more than six hours a day \u2014 confirmed the same pattern among workers aged 26 to 35.<\/p>\n

The condition is called carpal tunnel syndrome, and it’s the most common nerve entrapment disorder in the upper limb. Understanding what it actually is, how to spot it early, and what Pakistani patients can realistically do about it can save you from months of worsening pain and, in some cases, from surgery.<\/p>\n

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