Jordan v. SAIF Corp.

Claimant seeks reversal of a Workers’ Compensation Board order holding that medical treatment of her mild carpal tunnel syndrome is not compensable. On de novo review, we reverse and remand.

Claimant first began to feel pain in her wrist in September, 1980, when she was working part time as a furniture builder. She testified that the repeated use of a rubber mallet in hammering boards together caused pain. The doctor who examined claimant at that time diagnosed carpal tunnel syndrome and synovitis. Dr. Robertson, whom claimant began seeing immediately thereafter, also diagnosed carpal tunnel…