After the ligament is cut, the skin is closed with stitches. The gap where the ligament was cut is left alone and eventually fills up with scar tissue. If you have open carpal tunnel release surgery, ...

The NHS undertakes 37,000 operations a year to tackle carpal tunnel syndrome - a condition ... He said it would be done as day surgery under local anaesthetic. They would wrap a tourniquet around ...

If symptoms are not relieved by non-surgical interventions, then surgery may be advised. Surgical management for CTS is as follows: Surgical release of the carpal tunnel: This may be done as an ...

FOND DU LAC — Very few doctors conduct carpal tunnel surgery with minimal invasion and recovery time, but SSM Health Fond du Lac Regional Clinic plastic surgeon Richard Schaefer recently treated ...