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 is usually with injections (which may or may not work) or by attempting stretching to resolve the trigger point (which will probably not work.)
Trigger points are caused by something. The “something” must be taken care of first before the trigger point can go away.
Manual therapy–pressing into the trigger point AND releasing the muscles that caused it–is usually very successful. It takes time and that’s why there are muscle specialists (certain massage therapists) who do this work. Conventional medical practitioners generally don’t have the time or training to release trigger points.
There are several areas that can have trigger points that cause Carpal Tunnel symptoms: your neck (scalene muscles), chest (pectoral muscles), and muscles in your upper arm and lower arm.
If you go to Carpal Tunnel Radio you will find an episode on trigger points.
Here at Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief you will find more on “Triggers” under “Categories.”
The problem with a lot of conventional medicine is that it overlooks the most basic cause of most of our pain: Our muscles! As technology
overtook natural medical treatments, muscles were kind of thrown by the wayside as being causes of pain.
There are countries in the world where massage and manual therapies are part of their medical treatment because massage is OLD medicine!
Trigger points can cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, as well as other hand/wrist/arm pain. The beauty of it is, trigger points can be released. When you release or treat trigger points, the symptoms they cause will go away, too.