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The 2023 Cochrane review of steroid injection for carpal tunnel syndrome found nine studies with 639 people that provided usable data.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We found nine studies involving 639 people conducted in hospital-based clinics”
Local corticosteroid injection versus placebo for carpal tunnel syndrome, NL Ashworth et al., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2023, What did we find?.
Open the original (DOI 10.1002/14651858.CD015148)- What it measures
- The trials were in hospital clinics across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
- What it does not show
- Only 639 of 994 participants in the 14 included trials had data that could be pooled.