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At 18 months, 90% of surgery patients and 75% of splint patients reported success in the Dutch trial.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“and 90% (61/68) and 75% (59/79), respectively, after 18 months”
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
- The difference was 15 percentage points, with a 95% confidence interval of 3 to 27.
- What it does not show
- The comparison is weaker at 18 months because 41% of the splint group had had surgery by then.