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.
1 This incision may extend to your wrist. If your caregiver does limited open carpal tunnel surgery, then he will only make incisions on your palm.  The carpal ligament will be cut to release the pressure on the nerve. The carpal ligament is a band of tissue that connects joints in your wrist.