Based on their data, the researchers estimate that one in five symptomatic respondents would be expected to have CTS based on clinical examination and electrophysiologic testing. Risk factors were being an older woman, overweight, a blue collar worker and using excessive force with the hand during work for more than one hour per day. JAMA July 1999 Inject CTS before surgery An RCT has confirmed the benefit of injection of steroids close to, but not into, the carpal tunnell. As benefits were so clear an ethics committee withdrew permission for further patients to be randomised into the control group. The technique has been used for 20 years in the centre in which the study was performed.
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