Do you have carpal tunnel symptoms?
You might have thought that you have pain or numbness in your wrist, hand, fingers or arm because you are doing a lot of repetitive movement, but…
The actual reason may be that you are doing a lot of repetitive movements and you are doing them incorrectly. That can cause carpal tunnel syndrome!
Some recent research showed that many people do the same type of work but some get carpal tunnel syndrome and some do not.
Why would that be?
Well, some of us are muscularly well-balanced. Some people are active and have strong backs, or spend time doing yoga or other balancing activities.
If you were using all of your muscles, you would be pretty well balanced. If you were pretty well-balanced, you would have less pain in your carpal tunnel area (and elsewhere, too.)
But, often we don’t use all of our muscles anymore. 🙁
Most of us use only about the same 60 or so muscles over and over.
Most of us haven’t used ALL of our muscles since we were young kids.
And we have a LOT of muscles! Like 600!
So, there are three parts to relieving your carpal tunnel pain when it is caused by repetitive movement (repetitive stress or motion.)
1. Correct your movement patterns.
Doing repetitive movements in an incorrect way can (and will) overstretch (strain) your muscles. The cure for this would be to explore and find the least damaging ways to do repetitive movements.
For example, holding your elbow close to your body instead of reaching out with your arm when mousing. Holding your arm close to your waist causes less muscle strain, so less pain in your arm and hand.
Think about what you do that you believe aggravates your carpal tunnel pain. Is it
a specific position or movement?
Now think about ways to do those movements or to position yourself differently.
Try these different positions or movements to see if they help.
Twisting and tilting movements can be aggravating to wrists as well as to backs.
Do not give up! Keep figuring out the primary causes of your pain. Keep trying different things.
2. Getting your muscles back in balance.
Being physically out-of-balance (some muscles strong, some weak) allows our muscles to be more easily strained.
When some of our muscles are being over-stretched and some are “too short”–due to poor posture or habits–we get symptoms of pain, numbness and discomfort.
When you strengthen your back and the back of your arms and neck (and the powerful muscles in the back of your hips and thighs,) you will take a lot of pressure off the muscles and soft tissues that cause carpal tunnel pain.
There are easy ways to do this. Get simple strengthening movements here.
3. Keep learning!
Carpal tunnel pain can very often be healed. You don’t have to continue to have pain in your wrist, hand, fingers or arm.
Cuts heal. Bruises go away.
Your body wants to heal and be well, and it can!
The more information you have about safe, natural, simple ways to cure your carpal tunnel syndrome, the better your chance of healing yourself. Click here to discover more about safe, simple, natural carpal tunnel pain relief.
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