Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Symptoms
In our Denver Carpal Tunnel Health Center we see patients with carpal tunnel symptoms which affect their daily activities at work, recreation, and even sleeping. Usually carpal tunnel syndrome produces pain, numbness, and tingling into the first three fingers on the palmer surface of your hand. The cause is irritation or entrapment of your median nerve at the carpal tunnel of your wrist.
Carpal tunnel diagnosis
To diagnose carpal tunnel syndrome, your doctor will take you through a series of sensory, motor, reflex, and orthopedic tests to determine exactly where the median nerve irritation is happening. Carpal tunnel-like symptoms can also come from entrapment of the median nerve somewhere other than the carpal tunnel. Other places that it can be trapped are closer to the elbow and the shoulder. Other causes may be irritation of a spinal nerve originating from your neck and ending in the same fingers innervated by the median nerve. These symptoms may look and feel very similar, but the causes are completely different. That is why it is so important to have a thorough exam done on your wrist, arm, and neck to get to the root of the cause of your problem. There is no sense in only treating your wrist if the problem is originating from your neck.
Alleviate your symptoms
A few easy things that you can do to alleviate your carpal tunnel symptoms are to get your wrist adjusted by your chiropractor to ease the pressure off of the median nerve. You have eight little bones in your wrist and when one of them is out of place, it can create muscle spasm and inflammation in the carpal tunnel, causing the median nerve to be stressed. Also talk to your chiropractor about wearing a cock up splint to keep the carpal tunnel as open as possible while you are working or sleeping. Pay attention to how you sleep. Many people curl their wrists in at night, putting unnecessary pressure on the median nerve, which results in numbness and tingling in their hands.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition that is preventable, correctible, and rehabilitative. Talk to your chiropractor more about the cause of your carpal tunnel syndrome and start taking steps today to alleviate your pain and discomfort.
Dr. Visentin is a Denver Chiropractor of Care Chiropractic specializing in safe, effective and natural relief for carpal tunnel syndrome.
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