Prayer therapy: using verses of Fatiha al-Kitab, Qadr and Towhid surahs on patients suffering from Tunnel Karp syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is the most common entrapment neuropathy with annual cost of about one billion. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of intercessory prayer in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome. In this cross sectional interventional study, patients with Electro physiological confirmed diagnosis of CTS with inclusion criteria’s during autumn 2005 underwent intercessory prayer. They were evaluated for subjective symptoms with (VAS 10mm), objective signs and electro diagnostic parameters before and 6 weeks after a three-week intercessory prayer. 12 patients with 23 hands were enrolled. At 6 weeks after the end of therapy, subjective symptoms,phalen, reverse phalen and Electro diagnostic findings (Median DSL &DML) show significant changes (CI 95% p valve < 0.05). In tinel test, and Flick Sign, there were no significant changes (p value>0.05). About 47.8 % of cases cured completely and other changes (p value > 0.05). Changed so much but there were no significant changes in CTS grades in Chi square test, it may be due to the patients’ low count. 74.99% of patients were satisfied or highly satisfied with the therapy. We recommended that intercessory prayer (IP) should be considered in the employed as a cost - effective, non-invasive, low side effect treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome. It deserves to be studied more with enough patient sampling.