For patients with early carpal tunnel syndrome, conservative treatment such as rest can achieve satisfactory results. For patients with carpal tunnel syndrome who do not respond well to conservative treatment, surgery may be an option. If the median nerve degeneration is not found to be severe intraoperatively, the clinical outcome after surgery is good. If the history of the disease is too long and the median nerve has been compressed for too long and severely degenerated, function may be partially restored after surgery. Nowadays, endoscopic surgery is gradually becoming a trend, which is less invasive and has a shorter recovery period compared to traditional surgery.