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Self-assessment

How severe is your carpal tunnel?

The Boston Carpal Tunnel Questionnaire is the standard self-assessment for carpal tunnel syndrome, used in research and clinics worldwide — two short scales covering symptom severity and hand function. Your result is calculated instantly and never leaves your browser. Print it, or bring the numbers to your appointment — a score repeated over time (before and after splinting, injection or surgery) tells you far more than a score taken once.

Part 1 · Symptom severity

Your symptoms

The following questions refer to your symptoms for a typical twenty-four-hour period during the past two weeks. Select one answer to each question.

1 How severe is the hand or wrist pain that you have at night?
2 How often did hand or wrist pain wake you up during a typical night in the past two weeks?
3 Do you typically have pain in your hand or wrist during the daytime?
4 How often do you have hand or wrist pain during the daytime?
5 How long, on average, does an episode of pain last during the daytime?
6 Do you have numbness (loss of sensation) in your hand?
7 Do you have weakness in your hand or wrist?
8 Do you have tingling sensations in your hand?
9 How severe is the numbness (loss of sensation) or tingling at night?
10 How often did hand numbness or tingling wake you up during a typical night during the past two weeks?
11 Do you have difficulty with the grasping and use of small objects such as keys or pens?
Part 2 · Function

Your hand function

On a typical day during the past two weeks, have hand and wrist symptoms caused you to have any difficulty doing the activities listed below? Select the answer that best describes your ability to do the activity.

12 Writing
13 Buttoning of clothes
14 Holding a book while reading
15 Gripping of a telephone handle
16 Opening of jars
17 Household chores
18 Carrying of grocery bags
19 Bathing and dressing

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This questionnaire is an educational self-assessment, not a diagnosis, and does not replace a clinical assessment — other conditions can cause similar symptoms. Nothing you enter is transmitted or stored — the score is calculated on your device. Instrument: Levine DW, Simmons BP, Koris MJ, et al. A self-administered questionnaire for the assessment of severity of symptoms and functional status in carpal tunnel syndrome. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1993;75(11):1585–1592. Acceptable-symptom-state threshold: J Hand Surg Am 2025 (doi 10.1016/j.jhsa.2024.09.022).

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