Physician George S. Phalen of the Cleveland Clinic identified the pathology after working with a group of patients in the 1950s and 1960s. TreatmentPaget described two cases of carpal tunnel syndrome. The first was due to an injury where a cord had been wrapped around a mans wrist. The second was due to a distal radial fracture. For the first case, Paget performed an amputation of the hand. For the second case Paget recommended a wrist splint – a treatment that is still in use today. Surgery for this condition initially involved the removal of cervical ribs despite Marie and Foixs suggested treatment. In 1933 Sir James Learmonth outlined a method of decompression of the nerve at the wrist. This procedure appears to have been pioneered by the Canadian surgeons Herbert Galloway and Andrew MacKinnon in 1924 in Winnipeg but was not published. Endoscopic release was described in 1988. See also
Repetitive strain injury
Tarsal tunnel syndrome
Ulnar nerve entrapment

References
External links

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Fact Sheet (National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke) Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
NHS website carpal-tunnel.net provides a free to use, validated, online self diagnosis questionnaire for CTS
"Carpal Tunnel Syndrome". MedlinePlus. U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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