Carpal Tunnel Clinic in Dallas, Texas aims to help people understand and learn how to deal with or prevent carpal tunnel syndrome, a common medical condition that affects people’s hands and wrists. By providing screening and educational services, we hope that more people get the knowledge or assistance they need to avoid or treat this disease. Schedule an appointment today!

Carpal tunnel syndrome was a term used in the 1930's to describe an entrapment neuropathy of the median nerve at the wrist. There is nothing new whatsoever about carpal tunnel syndrome. Human beings have had carpal tunnel syndrome for as long as there have been carpal tunnels. The first open carpal tunnel release was described in 1947 and nothing changed very much for 50 years until the advent of endoscopic procedure in 1990. Along about the same time, the media publicized the fact that some individuals involved in repetitive type work activities, such as those who work on computers all day, have an increased incidence of carpal tunnel syndrome. in the point of fact , most people who come in the hand surgeon's office with carpal tunnel syndrome are perplexed as to why they have this disease because they do not engage in classical repetitive type work activities.