Effects of Dry Needling in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Mini-review

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is a complicated ailment in which there compression of the median nerve carpal tunnel and can lead to pain, disrupt range motion, hand function, finger grip force. Dry needling treatment used for CTS by inserting needle reduce pain lowering tension over improve symptoms. This review aimed determine whether dry useful treating syndrome Studies published between 2000 2021 were identified searching PubMed, Google Scholar, Springer. electronic search screened against set predetermined inclusion criteria. Five studies included this review. The main variables measured strength. Results show that effective short term relief increased motion improved patients with mild moderate syndrome. There less literature on associated needling. As some evidence positive effect CTS, further randomised clinical trials good methodological quality using standardised well-described procedures application are needed.