When medicines fail to help a patient who has the painful wrist condition known as carpal tunnel syndrome, doctors are left with two choices: nighttime splints that immobilize the wrist or surgery to free up the compressed nerve there.
Researchers in the Netherlands report in the Sept. 11 Journal of the American Medical Association that surgery brings more relief.
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