Determination of Dominant Pain Phenotype in Patients With Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Voluntary participants between the ages of 18-65 who have been diagnosed with CTS will be included in the study.The 7 steps in the Clinical Criteria/Rating System determined by the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) for Nosiplastic Pain and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome will be applied to people with CTS. Thermal pain threshold, mechanical pain sensitivity and static/dynamic allodynia will be evaluated to determine pain hypersensitivity (Step 5). Specific questions will be asked to confirm the history of hypersensitivity in patients (Step 6). Finally, comorbidities, if any, will be determined (Step 7). As a result, the pain phenotype of patients with CTS will be determined (Nociceptive, Neuropathic or Nosiplastic). Shapiro-Wilk test will be performed to determine the distribution of the data. One-way ANOVA (continuous) or Kruskal-Wallis (categorical) will be used to examine whether the dependent variables differ between groups. For significant F-test, an additional investigation of differences between groups will be performed with Gabriel's post hoc procedure.