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CARPAL COMPRESSION TEST FOR CTS The definitive diagnosis of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome requires nerve conduction testing and or EMG testing BUT these are costly and not readily available to many clinicians. Therefore, physical examination tests such as the Tinel sign and Phalen’s test have been developed but they don’t yield high accuracy. More recently, the carpal compression test was proposed and showed higher diagnostic accuracy over the Tinel sign and Phalen's test. In 2016, Almasi-Doghaee repor