Lisa Ramona Pendleton v Tri-Dim Filter Corp., etal

COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: 	Chief Judge Moon, Judge Bray and Senior Judge Hodges
LISA RAMONA PENDLETON
v. 	Record No. 0101-95-2 	MEMORANDUM OPINION*
PER CURIAM
TRI-DIM FILTER CORPORATION 	NOVEMBER 21, 1995
AND
CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY
FROM THE VIRGINIA WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION
Patricia M. Brady for appellant.
Steven H. Theisen (Midkiff & Hiner, on brief),
for appellees.
Lisa R. Pendleton appeals a decision of the Workers'
Compensation Commission denying her application seeking
compensation for an occupational disease on the basis that she
failed to prove that her bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome was a
disease within the meaning of "disease" under the Workers'
Compensation Act ("the Act"). 	We reverse the commission's
decision based upon our holding in Perdue Farms, Inc. v.
McCutchan, 21 Va. App. 65, 461 S.E.2d 431 (1995).
*Pursuant to Code § 17-116.010 this opinion is not
designated for publication.
We recently held in Perdue, that the general medical
definition of carpal tunnel syndrome places it within the
definition of disease set forth in Piedmont Mfg. Co. v. East, 17
Va. App. 499, 503, 438 S.E.2d 769, 772 (1993). 	Perdue, 21 Va.
App. at 68, 461 S.E.2d at 435. 	As in Perdue, Pendleton's

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condition did not present as an obvious, sudden, mechanical or
structural change in her body. 	Based upon our holding in Perdue,
we conclude that Pendleton's bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome is
a "disease" within the meaning of the Act.
Accordingly, we reverse the commission's decision and remand
this case for the commission to consider whether Pendleton's
condition arose out of and in the course of her employment as
required by the Act.
Reversed and remanded.