Ruth
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I have been receiving disability income benefits from a major insurance co. for the past 12 years due to bilat. CTS. I have a policy that includes an "own occupation clause" which I believed [and still do] that my benefits would continue to age 65. My occupation was that of the manager of the typesetting dept. of a major NYC bank (world headquarters). I opted against carpal tunnel release surgery due to an article published in JAMA in 1990 and, while I've remained symptomatic w/periods of acute exacerbation [usually following any type of strain to hands/wrists/arms, I know that "stopping" what caused it was the most sensible route to achieve whatever healing would be available to me. While I am certain an EMG would confirm the still-present existence of CTS, I recoil from the very thought of re-visiting that particular form of diagnostic torture. In the early '90s, the medical community was not that knowledgable nor sympathetic to the CTS sufferer. The neurological/surgical communities, in my opinion, jumped too quickly and easily to a surgery that one of their own journals did not recommend. My questions are these: 1] Do the practitioners of those communities now achknowledge the chronicity of CTS and support both the national statistics and the sufferer? 2] Has anyone experienced any significant problems relating to their insurance company? 3] Are there any non-product oriented medical websites that offer the best latest information? Thanks in advance.