Invasive Treatments – Do They Really Work For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
If you have been diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), you may be wondering what next? Below you will find information regarding the most common (not the best) treatment options currently in use in the medical industry and their success and failure rates.
If you have received a positive carpal tunnel diagnosis, most doctors will push for cortisone injections and/or surgery, procedures that have poor success rates and ones that should only be performed as a last resort, after all other conservative treatment methods have been utilized.
The following information provides details about what each current procedure entails as well as statistics that reveal why conservative therapy should be implemented over the following invasive treatment methods.
CORTISONE INJECTIONS FOR CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME:
Cortisone is medication that treats inflammation only. Often the carpal tunnel pain will subside because the inflammation of the median nerve is reduced from the use of the cortisone, but this is only a temporary effect.
The one main problem with cortisone is that...