Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Not Just Typing, and Surgery Actually Works

Summary

The office-folklore model of carpal tunnel syndrome — "it's from typing, so buy an ergonomic keyboard, a wrist rest and some vitamin B6" — gets the cause, the gadgets and the supplement wrong at once: keyboard and mouse use is a weak driver next to obesity, type-2 diabetes, pregnancy, hypothyroidism and the size of your wrist tunnel, and the ergonomic-device market and B6 have little-to-no evidence (high-dose B6 is itself neurotoxic) — while the genuinely effective moves are cheap and, unusually for this platform, include surgery: a nocturnal neutral-position wrist splint and a time-boxed cort