European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday february 2, 1994 or . 1 the stars and stripes Page 7 Washington up flexible wrist braces sold to protect workers from repetitive motion injuries do not work a study said monday. Doctors at the University of Cali Fomia san Francisco tested the flexible splints on 19 people who did not suffer from carpal Tunnel syndrome a painful and disabling nerve injury caused by repetitive motions such As typing or moving objects across a grocery store scanner. The researchers measured pressure on the carpal Tunnel while the subjects loaded and unloaded one Pound cans from a Box. The pressure increased both in people who wore the splints and in those who did not Wear them. Quot basically the study shows the splint has no value in reducing carpal Tunnel pressure and May increase the risk in some people Quot said or. David Rempel Lead author of the study in the journal of hand surgery. The syndrome results from stress on the median nerve which is housed in the carpal Tunnel the tiny Channel in a the hand and wrist. Patients initially experience pain and tingling. Ultimately they May lose sensation and use of the hand altogether. A you would expect that if the splint were effective in preventing carpal Tunnel syndrome you a see a drop in pressure in the carpal Tunnel. We did no to see that. Lit fact we saw the pressure Rise not significantly but it did Rise a said Rempel assistant professor of Medicine. Flexible wrist splints Are commonly advertised As a mechanism to help prevent carpal Tunnel syndrome. While they have been found to be useful in people who already suffer from the disorder their effectiveness As a preventive tool has not been proven Rempel said. Rempel added that some companies whose employees Are at High risk for the disorder such As lumber firms May buy splints by the hundreds and distribute them to workers As a Way of preventing carpal Tunnel syndrome. Paper files suit to Force release of Foster data new York a the Wall Street journal has filed a lawsuit demanding that the government release a report on the death of Deputy White House counsel Vincent of Ter the lawsuit filed Friday in . District court in Manhattan seeks a report by the . Park service police. Foster a boyhood Friend of president Clinton a died july 20 of an apparently self inflicted gunshot wound. The White House said it found a torn up note in the Bottom of of Ter a briefcase and gave it to investigators the note said Washington was a place where a ruining people is considered sports and criticized the Media particularly the journal. The government released a text of the note but the journal wants a photocopy Oft be torn up original. In an editorial monday the newspaper said it filed a Freedom of information act request for the Park service report and received a reply acknowledging it had been received aug. 18. The journal said it had filed another request since then but still had not re Sci cd the documents it was seeking. The newspaper noted that a report last week in the new York Post questioned Why Fosters body was found holding the revolver with arms peacefully at its Side when homicide detectives say such a shooting would leave a Messy scene. The Post Story also said there were apparent discrepancies in tests done on the revolver. A x. A a a former Illinois congresswoman Dies White Plains N.Y.apr former . Rep. Emily Taft Douglas the first woman to precede her husband in Congress has died. She was 94. Douglas the widow of sen. Paul h. Douglas of Illinois died in White Plains on Friday. She was elected in 1944 and served one term. Her husband elected to the Senate in 1948, served 17 years. He died in 1976. Both were democrats. Senator urges of of patriots for s. Korea Washington a . Sen. Alfonse do Amato wants president Clinton to approve a request by the . Military commander in South Korea for Patriot missiles. A a delay in sending Patriot missile batteries to South Korea will signal a weakness on our part and embolden North Korea a do Amato said monday in a letter to defense Secretary Les Aspin. Do Amato r-n.y., is a member of the defense subcommittee of the Senate appropriations committee. North Korea said monday that it May take Back promises to accept some nuclear inspections unless the United states drops plans to put the anti missile batteries in South Korea. The recent tension with North Korea arose Over the question of whether the communist country has developed nuclear weapons. On another front sen. John Mccain a Ariz of was preparing a Resolution that would a strengthen or reinforce . Forces including sending Patriot missiles. 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