Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: An Ideal Model to Compare Patients, Psysician-and Neurophysiological Oriented Outcomes-Italian Multicenterric Study of CTS (1123 Hands)

Background: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a very common disease (10% life-time risk of developing this pathology) and has a particular clinical-instrumental pattern: clinical diagnosis is usually easy and sensitive, so it is considered the gold standard test, but in most cases clinical diagnosis is only based on history and on referred symptoms while clinical examination is normal. On the other hand neurophysiological evaluation is a very sensitive diagnostic method (