Table 1. Demographic data of patient and control groups.

	Patient group (n* = 119)	Control group (n* = 119) p-value
Demographic data	Male : Female = 16∶ 54	Male : Female = 16∶ 54
Gender
Age (years)	53.84±10.82	53.69±10.79
Dominant : Non-dominant hand	64∶ 55	64∶ 55
Traditional sensibility assessments
S2PD (mm)	5.1±1.5	3.7±0.7	<0.001
M2PD (mm)	4.3±1.4	2.9±0.6	<0.001
SWM test	3.45±0.38	2.89±0.27	<0.001
Stress (gm/mm2)	15.36±7.92	4.19±0.82	<0.001

^*n indicates the number of affected hands. Forty-nine patients had CTS in both hands. Seventy CTS patients had a total of 119 affected hands.

Statistical analysis method: Mixed effect model; the significance threshold was set at 0.05.