Earlier this year four physical therapy students at Belmont wrote a proposal to the Tennessee Physical Therapy Association asking for $990 to fund their research. Lauren Clark, Laura Green, Carrie Rorick and Ashley Vidrine requested this money for their research on the comparative advantages of the Manu Brace versus “a standard wrist split in the treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, they explain in their proposal, is “a compression of the median nerve at the wrist, which leads to hand pain and weakness, with a loss of functional activity for many of those afflicted with this pathology”. They note that “conservative measure employed to treat the symptoms of CTS commonly and historically have included the standard or neutral wrist split designed to limit wrist flexion”.

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