Can salt cause carpal tunnel symptoms? This is the question a reader asked. Table salt (sodium chloride) can cause swelling in the tissues, probably more in some folks than others. When I used to put lots of table salt on my popcorn, in the morning the tissues around my eyes would be swollen. That means… Continue reading Does Salt Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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Should You Take Anti-Inflammatory Drugs to Help Your Carpal Tunnel Pain
NSAID’s (non-steriodal anti-inflammatory drugs) don’t cure carpal tunnel symptoms. Should you take them? What if they make you feel better? When you have a repetitive stress injury (RSI) or situations like Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, most doctors and websites will advise you to take NSAID’s. The only problem with this advice is that sometimes they are… Continue reading Should You Take Anti-Inflammatory Drugs to Help Your Carpal Tunnel Pain
What’s Inside Your Carpal Tunnel and How Does It Cause Carpal Tunnel Pain?
What exactly is the “carpal tunnel”? And how do you get carpal tunnel pain? Your wrist has bones on three sides and tough, soft tissue (soft tissue means not bones) on the fourth side. This creates a passageway or “tunnel” for your median nerve and the tendons for your finger muscles to pass through. Tendons… Continue reading What’s Inside Your Carpal Tunnel and How Does It Cause Carpal Tunnel Pain?
Instant Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief
Instant carpal tunnel pain relief? Lots of websites and advertisements promise “relief in 2 days” or “relief in a week.” Here’s the true story. There are several causes for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). And most of those causes can be treated and relieved naturally without drugs or surgery. But in 2 days? Or 7 days? … Continue reading Instant Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief
Hand & Wrist Pain? Here’s Another Cause For Carpal Tunnel Pain
Typing or keyboarding in a “bad” position can cause carpal tunnel pain! Here’s an example: I watched a woman working on her computer. Her chair was so far away from the keyboard that her arm was stretched almost totally straight. She did not pull her chair closer to the keyboard. Why will this end up… Continue reading Hand & Wrist Pain? Here’s Another Cause For Carpal Tunnel Pain
How Can You Stop Your Carpal Tunnel Pain?
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome symptoms may go away when you rest your muscles, do different activities, use proper (“good”) body mechanics and posture, and exercise (move) and strengthen the muscles in your arm. But if you don’t keep doing all of those things, your symptoms can come back. (Symptoms are things like pain, tingling, numbness, knots… Continue reading How Can You Stop Your Carpal Tunnel Pain?
Carpal Tunnel Symptoms–What Causes Pain, Numbness or Tingling in Your Hand
What causes the pain of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? There is a nerve that passes through your wrist. It’s called the median nerve. Nerves hate it when anything presses on them. They hate it! There is a narrow passage in your wrist (the “carpal tunnel”) and the median nerve passes through this tunnel. If space becomes… Continue reading Carpal Tunnel Symptoms–What Causes Pain, Numbness or Tingling in Your Hand
Why Do You Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Who gets Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and why? Many people think it is due to repetitive work–doing the same movement over and over. Sometimes that is true but more often it is due to doing the repetitive work incorrectly or in an incorrect posture. Sometimes when we learn a new job or hobby we learn to… Continue reading Why Do You Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Muscles Around Your Neck That Cause CTS
What does it mean when your carpal tunnel symptoms won’t go away with therapy or with every self-help technique that you can think of? That could mean the cause is something that you or your therapist haven’t thought of: the muscles around your neck. Wait a minute. How do the muscles around your neck cause… Continue reading Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Muscles Around Your Neck That Cause CTS
Muscles In Your Neck Can Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome caused by muscles in your neck? You bet it could be! So I figured it was probably time to talk about scalene muscles again. Those are the nasty little muscles in your neck that can cause symptoms all over your upper body. They can cause all sorts of pain. They cause… Continue reading Muscles In Your Neck Can Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome