Carpal Tunnel Release Operation Reveal - carpal tunnel syndrome surgery cost
The OUTCOME (or failure in my case) OF MY carpal Tunnel Operation;
When patients were surveyed patients after surgery, the National Institutes of Health and the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons report that even under normal circumstances, over HALF of patients are UN-SATISFIED with their results.
This miserable surgical outcome is deeply worsened if you have carpal tunnel syndrome in addition to some other conditions, like those listed below. So make sure you are free of any of these high risk problems because your carpal tunnel surgery is nearly guaranteed to fail:
-Severe Carpal Tunnel Symptoms
-Obesity
-Diabetes
-Stress or Depression
-High Blood Pressure
-Alcohol Abuse
Surgery failure means either the pain or other symptoms are not relieved, or the symptoms will return shortly afterward. With most failed surgeries, patients are usually asked to undergo ANOTHER, second surgery. Unfortunately, the second surgery has the same probability of failure as the first.
Why would your doctor recommend carpal tunnel surgery knowing full-well your chances of getting satisfying results are miserably small? The analogy is crude but accurate: if you ask a car salesman if you need a new car, your answer will be, "Of course you do!" Similarly, surgeons who recommend anything BUT surgery will lose money.
Not surprisingly, studies by the National Institutes of Health and the American Academy of Hand Surgeons show that most people who get carpal tunnel surgery actually don't need it. Instead, they should have used non-surgical alternatives like deep tissue carpal tunnel massage therapy. In other words, surgery should be your LAST option once you've tried every non-surgical method first.
The operation can be one of two types; open release and endoscopic. (This summary averages both types.) Costs may vary by state, insurance company, and complicating circumstances. The operation can be performed in a hospital or ambulatory center (surgi-center). Costs vary between facilities because each has its own cost structure. Costs in each facility are usually divided into facility costs, doctor fees, and anesthesia. Post-surgical costs vary the most for this operation.
Medical studies show that hand surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome fails 52% of the time. Most carpal tunnel surgery failures are due to return of carpal tunnel symptoms within 2 years. While most patients don’t have a second surgery, those who do have it experience the same failure rate.
Failure to resolve symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome following a release of the flexor retinaculum can occur for a number of reasons. Failed carpal tunnel can be classified into three categories and include (1) persistent symptoms, (2) recurrent symptoms, and (3) new symptoms. Persistent symptoms of median nerve dysfunction can imply an incomplete release and/or wrong initial diagnosis with other associated problems, which can include proximal median nerve compression and/or cervical disc disease. Revision surgery is appropriate for patients with an incomplete release. In this case, the patient presented with a loss of median motor/sensory function immediately after surgery and pain in the territory of the palmar cutaneous branch of the median nerve. Provocative tests revealed findings comparable with an incomplete release of the carpal tunnel. Revision surgery was elected and an incomplete proximal release of the flexor retinaculum was found. Additionally, this patient had a palmar cutaneous branch with an aberrant course through the flexor retinaculum into the territory of the first incision. This branch was managed with a proximal transposition.
Other causes of numb areas:
The ulnar nerve is one of the three main nerves in your arm. It travels from your neck down into your hand, and can be constricted in several places along the way, such as beneath the collarbone or at the wrist. The most common place for compression of the nerve is behind the inside part of the elbow.
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