Table 7.

Results of functional status assessment of the hand and severity of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) complaints among the office workers reporting complaints of hand and wrist pain, tested at the Biomechanics Laboratory of Central Institute for Labor Protection – National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland, 2021

Variable	Measurement			X2	p
	first	second	third
Hand functional status (M±SD)
exercises group	1.84±0.74	1.65±0.80	1.64±0.80	9.68	0.008*
non-exercises group	1.74±0.96	1.57±0.51	1.42±0.58	5.10	0.078
Seventy of CTS complaints (M±SD)
exercises group	2.13±0.69	1.85±0.80	1.79±0.75	26.68	0.001*
non-exercises group	1.73±0.55	1.73±0.54	1.48±0.47	13.15	0.001*

^*p < 0.05.