Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common compressive neuropathy. Carpal tunnel release is indicated when failed conservative treatment. Although it can be done either with local anesthesia or brachial plexus block, there is no gold standard of anesthetic choice. The study is conducted to compare the efficacy of two methods and we hypothesized that the local direct median nerve block has effectiveness in intraoperative pain control not inferior to brachial plexus block in endoscopic carpal tunnel release.
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Intraoperative pain measured as visual analog scale (VAS)
Timeframe: Immediate postoperative period