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33percent at 5 years
In the Scottish cohort, the estimated rate of secondary carpal tunnel decompression after a steroid injection was 15% at one year and 33% at five years.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Kaplan–Meier rate of secondary CTD was 15% at 1 year and 33% at 5 years.”
Corticosteroid injection for carpal tunnel syndrome: a 5-year survivorship analysis, PJ Jenkins and AD Duckworth, Hand (N Y), 2012, Results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1007/s11552-012-9390-8)- What it measures
- This is a survival estimate: the rate of surgery among people still without it at each point.
- What it does not show
- A single unit with no comparison group, so it describes how often steroid injections fail rather than their effect against surgery.