Denver Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Health Center

Patients often wonder, “Why do I have carpal tunnel syndrome? What can cause this condition, and what can make me particularly prone to it?”

What Actions Provoke Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Grabbing objects while the wrist is flexed is a movement that can lead to carpal tunnel syndrome. Movements like using the mouse of a computer terminal incorrectly causes pinching of the nerve that causes this painful disorder.

What Conditions Aggravate Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
The tunnel that runs through the wrist to carry the nerve associated with carpal tunnel syndrome can be narrowed by the following; arthritis, swelling, fractures or broken bones. This interferes with the nerve that leads to carpal tunnel syndrome.

Who Does Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Effect?
Women are particularly prone to carpal tunnel syndrome, although men can be affected as well. The most common onset is age 40-50, although a person of any age can have it. The symptoms can be present in one wrist or both. Usually the dominant hand is the one involved.

If you would like the advantage of a special approach to carpal tunnel syndrome, call our center. If you mention this article, you are entitled to a FREE examination and special report with your spouse or significant other. Call (303) 394-CARE (2273).

Denver Chiropractor
Dr. Visentin, D.C.
Care Chiropractic
Denver, CO
©2010

At our Denver Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Health Center we get a lot of questions about this syndrome. As we become more sedentary in our life and work we tend to become more focused on using tools like our cell phone to text, the computer and video games. With this repetitive motion for prolonged periods of time carpal tunnel syndrome has become more and more prevalent. Here are some answers about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome that we often get asked about in our clinic.

Q: What is causing my carpal tunnel syndrome?

A: There is a nerve that originates in your neck, travels the length of your arms, goes through your carpal tunnel at your wrists, and (more…)

Why are carpal tunnel syndrome patients visiting our clinic? Isn’t Dr. Visentin, D.C. a spine doctor? What does the spine have to do with tingly hands?

The article sited below is more scientific proof that shows how carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers may benefit from our care. We remove pressure from the nerves that go to the wrists, from the neck.

People with healthy spines have fewer health problems and much less chance of suffering carpal tunnel syndrome.

Spinal Manipulation, 5th edition by Bourdillon JE, Day EA, Bookhout MR: Oxford, England, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, 1992:
“Faulty innervation caused by spinal joint lesions is one of the main factors in the production of carpal tunnel syndrome.” P. 207.
If you suspect you may have carpal tunnel syndrome, call (303) 394-CARE (2273) now. We’ll examine your wrists and your spine, to see if it’s contributing to your pain. This special carpal tunnel exam is FREE when you mention this article on your first visit.

Dr. Visentin, D.C.
Care Chiropractic
Denver, CO ©2010

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 (more…)

Why are carpal tunnel syndrome patients visiting doctors of chiropractic? Aren’t chiropractors spine doctors? What does the spine have to do with tingly hands?

The article sited below is scientific proof of how carpal tunnel syndrome sufferers may benefit from our care. We remove pressure from the nerves that go to the wrists. The nerves that supply the wrist come from the neck. The nerve that is irritated when someone has carpal tunnel syndrome may be irritated by neck bones or wrist bones out of place. When the neck and wrist pinch the nerves that go to the hand, scientists call it a “double crush syndrome”.

Double crush syndrome: chiropractic care of an entrapment neuropathy. Mariano KA; Mcdougle MA; Tanksley Gw. Journal of Manipulative and Physiological therapeutics, 1991 May, 14(4) : 262-5.
Discusses the relationship between double crush syndrome and chiropractic care.

People with healthy spines have fewer health problems and much less chance of suffering carpal tunnel syndrome. We help reduce nerve interference from both the neck and the wrist.

If you suspect you may have carpal tunnel syndrome call (303) 394-CARE (2273) now.

Dr. Visentin, D.C.
Care Chiropractic
Denver, CO ©2010