Your body is very smart and is very capable of healing. Sometimes you just need to understand WHY you have carpal tunnel symptoms and WHAT to do to get rid of them.
Last summer I tripped and when I caught myself on my hand, I jammed my wrist, elbow and shoulder badly. I knew nothing broke, but there was a lot of trauma. I was pretty sure I dislocated my elbow.
I was careful to keep my muscles open (long) so they wouldn’t shorten and seize up. They wanted to tighten up and I had to deliberately keep my arm open. I took an anti-inflammatory two or three times (Aleve made a big difference) and I iced all of the areas I thought were involved many times to reduce the swelling.
After everything settled down a bit, during
the second and third weeks, I had two different massage therapists treat all of the muscles from my chest and shoulder to my hand. It was amazing all of the tight and tender different areas they each found! I also did a lot of self-massage, drank plenty of water, took my vitamin & mineral supplements as usual and ate healthily. (Those last 4 things are my “health insurance policy.”)
While I couldn’t use that hand or arm, do massage or type for several weeks, at the end of the 6 week healing period, it was back to normal. I knew it would be. There were a couple of little pops on the day that marked my “six week anniversary” and that was that.
Your body needs certain things to help it heal. You can find out what they are at here at CarpalTunnelPainRelief.com and you can find out what to do about them, too.