Are you wondering why you have carpal tunnel syndrome?
1. There are natural laws that govern how our bodies work. These laws state that if something occurs in one part of our body, something must happen elsewhere to compensate for the first occurrence.
Many times the “something somewhere else” is pain, maybe in our hand, arm or wrist. Something has to happen first before we get carpal tunnel syndrome. It doesn’t happen for without a reason (or two.
2. Our overstretched muscles go into their own special form of contraction. To call attention to their plight, they cause muscle pain symptoms. For example, when the muscles in your arm become overstretched and tight, you get pain in your carpal tunnel area (hand, wrist and arm.)
3. We each have several hundred muscles in our bodies. Yet, most of us use only the same 60 or so over and over. As you can imagine, we get out of muscular balance because we are not using the rest of our 600 muscles. Our carpal tunnel area does not like that.
4. Most of our days consist of having our head in front of our body. If your head is in front of your body all day, this is similar to walking around with a bowling ball hanging off your neck! This forward head posture causes muscle stress, headaches, TMJ pain and dysfunction, migraines, pain in the back and carpal tunnel area pain.
5. If you have carpal tunnel symptoms or hand, wrist and arm pain, there is a very good chance that you also have other complaints, such as pain in your head, jaw, neck and back. Most headaches are also muscular in origin (how they start.)
6. There are three categories of people whose carpal tunnel syndrome may not be caused solely by something going on with muscles. People who are pregnant. Their pain goes away after delivery. Diabetics. Those individuals need to be treated by their physician, but may also benefit from this information to reduce their carpal tunnel discomfort. There are certain few individuals who are genetically predisposed to have a smaller carpal tunnel area than most. They may experience carpal tunnel pain regardless of whether or not they have over-strained their muscles.
7. There are drug-free, surgery-free alternatives to conventional medical treatments, which can give you the opportunity to reduce or eliminate your carpal tunnel pain forever.
Attaining balance is the answer. But prior to achieving balance, we may have to
change some aspects of our lives.
We may have to make time to have time for ourselves to achieve balance. We may have to eliminate unhealthy or toxic relationships from our lives, or learn how to deal with them in ways which do not deplete our energy and time.
We may have to correct years of abuse, misuse, under use and overuse of the body through new systems of movement, massage and bodywork, and new postures and positions.
We have to seek and destroy causes of our pain, and not only treat symptoms.
Our bodies are machines. Fine, fabulous, wonderful machines… Works of art, designed to last over 100 years, with good health.
Our bodies are designed to last if well-maintained, well-fueled, tuned to perfection and kept in pretty good balance.
To overcome the emotional, physical and chemical assaults of living in an unbalanced world, we must do all we can to be in balance. And getting that balance back is possible.
To overcome your carpal tunnel area pain, you must do your best to have balance in your emotional and physical life.
“Because you deserve to feel better!”