Fact · Accessibility and health
41percent
By 18 months, 41% of the splint group in the Dutch trial had also had surgery.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“by that time 32/79 patients (41%) in the splint group had also undergone surgery.”
Greater clinical effects on carpal tunnel syndrome with surgery than with splinting; results of a randomised clinical trial, AAM Gerritsen et al., JAMA, 2002, Results.
Open the original- What it measures
- This crossover makes the 18-month splint result hard to read as a true non-surgical outcome.
- What it does not show
- The trial reports this number as it stood at 18 months.