**9. Conclusion**

Compression neuropathies are one of the most prevalent disorders of the peripheral nervous system with an increasing incidence over the past decades. Recent studies have helped clarify the diagnosis and treatment for many of these neuropathies, facilitating a prompt recognition of the signs and symptoms, achieving an accurate diagnosis and a prompt treatment before the establishment of complications. The ability to recognize nerve entrapment syndromes and to distinguish them from other diseases of peripheral nerves, are important clinical skills. Although electrophysiological assessments are important in the diagnosis of neuropathies, our clinical skills remain the most reliable tool to identifying them and start an accurate treatment protocol. It is always important to begin with a non-operative strategy in patients with mild symptoms, nevertheless, surgical decompression is the definitive treatment of choice for most of the compression neuropathies, that is why it is important to know all the surgical alternatives and know the surgical anatomy for each upper extremity nerve.
