Carpal tunnel syndrome- will it lead to arthritis if not treated?

No: Carpal tunnel is a median nerve compression syndrome and unrelated to any joint involvement. It will not lead to any arthritic change if treated or not.

No: Carpal tunnel affects your nerve not the bones or joints.

However, many causes: Perhaps most frequent is repetitive use of keyboarding, and also any activity requiring repetitive flexion/extension motions of wrists. Just to be complete, occasional patients with rheumatological conditions can get carpal tunnel, so in some cases, arthritis can cause cts.

I do not: Think so. It is a compression of the nerve in the wrist. Symptoms include pain, tingling, numbness. People usually do the surgery because the symptoms are so annoying they want it fixed. Arthritis would be a bone related problem.