Do Muscles Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

Do you really have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?  Or are out-of-balance muscles and myofascial trigger points causing the pain in your hands and wrists?

A good way to determine whether people have true CTS is by symptoms. Symptoms are what you feel, like pain or tingling.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome has specific symptoms but many doctors diagnose
any pain in the hand and wrist as CTS.

Nerves can be trapped by bones or by muscles anywhere from your neck to your hand.

When nerve entrapment or compression occurs
someplace other than the wrist (carpal tunnel) carpal tunnel surgery will fail.

Surgery at the wrist can only make more space at that location for the
nerve. But if the nerve is being pinched anywhere from the neck to the
lower arm, surgery at the wrist won’t help.

Additionally, myofascial trigger points are medically documented areas of
hypertonicity (tightness) in fascia and muscles that actually cause pain elsewhere. Trigger points can occur in the upper body and they can cause pain in your wrist and hand and arm.

About half of the patients who have “successful” carpal tunnel surgeries begin

having symptoms again within a couple of years. This happened because the surgeon didn’t look to find all of the causes of the hand and wrist pain.

Bodies are very logical. They work in certain ways. They complain when
certain things are going on.The complaints are symptoms.

But symptoms lie all the time.

Another problem is that very few doctors understand how muscles work to
cause pain. That’s just not something that is taught much in medical
school. Rather than look for causes of pain, med schools focus much
more on treating symptoms with drugs and surgeries.

It takes TIME to look for possible causes of hand and wrist pain and doctors only have so much time per patient.  There is so much to know
that doctors simply cannot know everything.

Neither can I. But I do understand how bodies and muscles work and that gives me a little advantage in helping people feel better naturally.

You have to wonder:  Can this be true carpal tunnel syndrome if you didn’t always have it?

If ‘the wrists of women are smaller than the wrist of a man’ and that‘s why the woman has CTS, why didn’t she  always have symptoms?If pressure in the CT is caused by overweight, why not lose weight?

First, let’s try treatment that is non-invasive like massage, physical therapy and weight reduction.

Let’s look at posture and muscles and trigger points and nutrition.

Then if those therapies doesn’t work consider carpal tunnel surgery as a last
resort.