Years later, Swami Rama commented that the real value of his experiments at Menninger was not to prove he could stop his heartbeat or regulate the temperature in individual cells in his body, but rather to demonstrate the potentially therapeutic power of the mind/body connection.
Most people with carpal tunnel syndrome are treated without surgery. Surgery is considered only when: 1  Symptoms haven't improved after several weeks to months of nonsurgical treatment. 2  This assumes that you are having ongoing symptoms but no sign of nerve damage. 3  Nerve damage would make surgery more urgent.
A lot of people believe that because they have insurance it would be a good idea to go ahead and have Carpal Tunnel Surgery, thinking that the surgery represents a permanent fix. Well, first of all, this procedure is not a permanent fix for CTS. It comes back for 85% of people within 6 months to 7 years.