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The 2024 Cochrane review of surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome pooled 14 randomised studies with 1,231 participants.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The 14 included studies randomised 1231 participants (1293 wrists).”
Surgical versus non-surgical treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome, V Lusa et al., Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2024, Main results.
Open the original (DOI 10.1002/14651858.CD001552.pub3)- What it measures
- Participants were 84% women, with a mean age of 32 to 53 years, from nine countries.
- What it does not show
- Trials ranged from 22 to 176 participants, so individual studies were small.