Mediracer now blogging inSwedish

Hello Veijo, I guess you are traveling in Sweden. Thanks for your email. I decided to start the Swedish language blog as well. Below a comment to your email. We need to discuss some details about the policy of blogging. I've now taken the freedom to publish things I think is OK, but we've good time to specify some details...

• English version: http://carpal-tunnel-syndrome-cts.blogspot.com/ (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - CTS)
  
  
• Finnish version: http://point-of-care.blogspot.com/ (Point of Care)
  
  
• Swedish version: http://mediracer.blogspot.com/ (Mediracer)

As you can see, we have now in use some very central blog names covering mediracing. The idea is not to translate the content from one to the other but rather to have contextual point of view. The Swedish blog will cover Scandinavian issues, and Finnish is probably most national an also with some business orientation. The English blog approaches CTS from a anglo-saxon and global perspective.

Hej Veijo, tack för ditt meddelande। Jag var tyvärr inte på plats i dag klockan 13:30 eftersom jag deltog i en Venture Capital diskussion i Helsingfors. Vi hade ett intressant möte. Det gäller en teknologi som också berör medicinska applikationer, men mera om detta i ett senare skede.

Men jag är på plats senare i kväll. Bestämde mig att även starta den Svenskspråkiga bloggen. Den fick namnet Mediracer. Vi kör nu ut med tre olika språk och har olika namn och innehåll för varje blog.

• Engelsk version: http://carpal-tunnel-syndrome-cts.blogspot.com/ (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - CTS)
  
  
• Finsk version: http://point-of-care.blogspot.com/ (Point of Care)
  
  
• Svensk version: http://mediracer.blogspot.com/ (Mediracer)
  

Jag har diskuterat med Olli Kallio om att starta en mediracing blog på Franska. Vi kan diskutera tidtabellen med dig så fort vi får kontakt över skype.

Du har kanske märkt att vi har laborerat med olika innehåll för att visa möjligheterna som bloggandet medför.

Den Svenska bloggen tar upp Skandinavisk CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrom) forskning och praktik.

Severe carpal tunnel syndrome potentially needing

Severe carpal tunnel syndrome potentially needing ...[J Hand Surg [Am]. 2003] - PubMed Result: "Atroshi I, Gummesson C, Johnsson R, McCabe SJ, Ornstein E. Department of Orthopedics, Hässleholm-Kristianstad Hospitals, Kristianstad, Sweden.

PURPOSE: To estimate the prevalence of severe carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) that potentially needs surgical treatment in a general population. METHODS: A health-status questionnaire was mailed to a random general population sample of 3,000 subjects (ages, 25-74 y).

The responders who reported numbness and/or tingling in the median nerve distribution in the hands were asked to attend a clinical evaluation at which they completed the validated CTS questionnaire and underwent physical examination and nerve conduction tests. The CTS questionnaire measures the severity of symptoms and disability on a scale from 1 (none) to 5 (most severe).

The potential need for surgery was defined as CTS symptom severity score of 3.2 or greater or functional status score of 2.5 or greater (corresponding to median preoperative scores for surgical patients in previous reports).

RESULTS: The response rate for the survey was 83%. Of the responders who reported numbness and/or tingling in the median nerve distribution in the hands 81% attended the clinical evaluation.

Of the 94 subjects diagnosed with clinically certain CTS, 19 (20%; 12 with electrophysiologically proven median neuropathy) had previously undiagnosed CTS that potentially needed surgical treatment, yielding a population prevalence of 7 per 1,000 (95% confidence interval, 4-11 per 1,000).

CONCLUSIONS: In a general population there was a 0.7% prevalence of undiagnosed CTS with a severity similar to that of patients undergoing surgery. The degree to which variable numbers of this group are drawn into a medical system could account for variations in the rate of surgery performed.

PMID: 12877853 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]"