When Carpal Tunnel Pain Won’t Go Away, Check Trigger Points In Muscles

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is very often caused by trigger points in your muscles. What ARE trigger points?  Trigger points are hyperirritable (crabby) areas of muscle or other soft tissues (or myofascia).  Trigger points can  be found in any soft tissues.  Soft tissues are everything except bone. What do trigger points do?  They cause pain and… Continue reading When Carpal Tunnel Pain Won’t Go Away, Check Trigger Points In Muscles

Trigger Points and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

What are trigger points and how do they cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Conventional allopathic medicine (that means your medical doctor) sometimes recognizes trigger points. Some doctors do truly understand trigger points–what they are, how they work–but others think that every tender place is a trigger point.  That’s not true. When doctors treat trigger points, it… Continue reading Trigger Points and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Triggers

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is very often caused by trigger points in your muscles so the recent episode at Carpal Tunnel Radio answered the following questions: * What ARE trigger points? * What do they do? * What CAUSES trigger points? When I was making my notes for today’s show, I noticed a relationship between Carpal Tunnel… Continue reading Carpal Tunnel Triggers