Stretching is really good medicine for carpal tunnel symptoms! It helps PREVENT hand/wrist/arm pain from happening. It also help correct it!
The thing to know: It’s most helpful if you stretch in the OPPOSITE direction of the position you’re usually in.
Getting ‘stuck’ in the positions we’re in most is a common cause of pain. The soft tissues/muscles on the side that’s shortest most often actually get short. Then we get into pain because muscles are ‘out of balance.’
Muscles can pull you off-center which causes muscle strain, get “knots”, trigger points or just “too tight”. Any of those situations can refer pain into the hand, arm, back or head.
The best plan is to avoid carpal tunnel pain by keeping your body in as neutral posture as possible (like when you were a toddler.) Stretching can help get you there.
If you sense or see that one shoulder is lower, for instance, stretch that short side. That will help create balance.
Carpal Tunnel Natural Relief was designed by me to help you get rid of your carpal tunnel symptoms as quickly as possible, naturally and forever!
I had knee replacement and then fell and fractured my ankle. All on the right side, also the side the carpal tunnel is worse. I can’t have surgery again right now
Hi Pamela. Ouch! That’s a lot of injuries. Do you have carpal tunnel symptoms on both sides? My current long-distance thought is that your knee surgery, or perhaps your injured ankle, are throwing your posture off from side to side. That, in turn, could be causing the nerves and muscles around your neck to create carpal tunnel symptoms, especially on the right side. If you’d like, please stand as straight as possible in front of a mirror. Look directly at your image and try to see if one shoulder appears lower than the other? Or, if your head seems off-center?
If your leg length was already not equal prior to the knee surgery, or if the surgery caused that leg to be shorter, that could be the factor that’s throwing your posture off. Please let me know what you think. If that’s the case, I’ll give further thoughts. If not, I’ll still give more thoughts, if you’d like.
Thank you for your carpal tunnel question.
Kathryn Merrow
The Pain Relief Coach