Carpal Tunnel Pain? Here’s a Quick Do-It-Yourself Massage Technique to Relieve Pain in Your Arm, Wrist & Hand

Since muscles are the usual cause of pain in the carpal tunnel area, massaging your muscles will help your carpal tunnel area to feel better.

So here are some quick and easy tips for doing self-massage to relieve your carpal tunnel discomfort.

The muscles that cause carpal tunnel syndrome are in the lower and upper arm.  Sometimes they are also in your neck.  We’ll talk about the neck muscles another time.

And, please pay attention to what you are doing.  You don’t want to aggravate your carpal tunnel symptoms.

1.  Start light.

Apply pressure with the palm of one hand to your other forearm (lower arm.)  Just press straight down into the muscle.  Your muscles are below your skin. Press onto your bare skin.

Sometimes even your skin will feel like it hurts.  When we press into a tight area, often it will feel tender.

At this time, you are just seeing how your muscles feel.  Hard, stringy, bunched up?  Tender?  Painful?

Even though you are just checking out your muscles, you are also actually starting your massage.  Your muscles will begin to relax.

2.  Apply a lubricant.

You can use some massage or body oil, cooking oil, baby powder or any other product that has some nice “glide” to your arm and hand.  Suave brand hand lotion works pretty well but some others get tacky too quickly.

Just use a little bit.  Too much makes your skin too slippery.  You just want to be able to slide a little on your skin.

Use your other palm or forearm to press a bit deeper into your slightly-oiled muscles.

If you place the arm you are massaging on a desk or table, that will be a support.

Simply by leaning

forward, you can apply pressure with your other arm.  Rub or glide from wrist to elbow, on all sides of your lower arm.

Keep your pressure even and fairly light. If you feel a little tender, that’s ok.

Deep pressure at first may cause more tenderness for you later.  That’s not bad.  It just means your muscles were tight and you began loosening them up.  It will pass in a couple of days. So instead of going for the kill right off the bat, try to keep your pressure mid-deep instead of deep-deep.

Later on, you might want to use more pressure, even if it hurts.  You will understand the benefit better after you do this a few times.  It takes practice.

3.  Massage your fingers and hands.

Rub around each finger and thumb.  Explore all of the muscles in your hands.  You can press with a knuckle or your thumb (if it’s not painful) or even gently with your opposite elbow.

Check out the web between your thumb and first finger, too.  There’s often lots of tender stuff going on in the muscles there.

Wherever you find tender places, stay a little while (maybe 12 seconds) and then move away.  You can come back again later to work a little more.

Areas that are the most tender are usually the areas that need the most massage.

If you massage each arm (or your problem arm) for about 5 minutes to start, that would be great.  Do more only if you can do it comfortably.

Do this massage thoughtfully.  Pay attention to your body.

It wouldn’t be good to cause pain elsewhere while you are doing this.  If any other area starts to get uncomfortable, take a break or change position.

You have to take care of all of you, not just your arms.

And, remember to drink some extra water before and after your self-massage.  Your body craves water and most of us don’t drink enough.

If you’d like more information about getting rid of your carpal tunnel pain naturally, please click this link:  Carpal Tunnel Tool Kit.

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