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We recognize the desire to produce a "Five things to know about..article for a common clinical condition. After all, the popular press constantly barrages us with similar entertaining lists of facts we didn't know about certain things. Squissato and Brown1 have selected some interesting articles on which to comment from many thousands of possible articles. The danger of this approach was that it was completely at the discretion of the authors to select what they considered important topics and to hopefully then give an unbiased assessment of that topic. The article does not cite any of the 12 available Cochrane reviews on the topic of carpal tunnel syndrome.