How to stop carpal tunnel tingling in hands?

Question

Anyone else have carpal tunnel, or know how to stop the tingling in one's fingers due to this condition? It's pretty annoying. Natural or otherwise would be appreciated! Thanks :)

Answer 1

I work in a car factory, using air guns most all day and the problem you describe is common for everyone. The most important thing you can do to prevent it is to pay very close attention to the angle of your wrist whenever you are doing anything. Keep your wrist as strait as possible at all times. Also taking an anti-inflammatory such as Aleve (but don't over do it on that one, hard on your stomach), check with a Dr. to see if he can give you a better one. Also get what they call a Thera-bath, basically just a vat of wax, Dip your hands and wrist into it first thing in the morning and wait till the wax cools before taking it off. The heat helps to improve circulation in your hands. In addition to that use an ice pack in the afternoons after work to reduce the swelling caused by excessive wrist movement. Also if it gets really bad you can get braces which keep your wrist strait at night when you sleep. In advanced stages it will cause your hands and wrist to curl into a ball at night further cutting off circulation to your hands. If you wake up in the mornings and your hands are numb you should look into one of these braces. Also go to the drug store and get a vitamin supplement called, Glucosamine Chondroitin Complex, this helps to lubricate joints and cartilage.

Answer 2

How To Stop Carpal Tunnel

Answer 3

i got carpal tunnel when i was about 20 years old, in both arms, i would get pain shooting up and down my arms all night long, i went to physical therapy. they do massages on the wrists and hands, then you lift weights, ice down, and do some weird heat therapy. all of that widens the carpul tunnel so that the nervers aren't being squished and you wont get pain and tingling. silly putty is good for excercise. when i went in it turned out i lost a lot of movement in my wrists, but i gained it all back when i was done

Answer 4

This might sound silly but I make a paste of jalapeno peppers salt and baking soda. Grind the peppers with the salt and mix in baking soda if it is really crumbly dry add a few drops of water. Then place some of the paste on a strip of cloth (about 4" by 18") and wrap it around affected wrist(s) and secure it with safety pins. Do this before bed for a few nights and the mixture will ease some of the inflammation and that should stop the tingling and shooting pain. You can put some on your elbows too (as some people have problems with the elbow along with CTS). I first tried this for tennis elbow and thought the person who told me about was a cook. But it works. The jalapeno has capsicum which is known to relieve many types of pain and is used in many topical pain relievers. The salt and baking soda are know to have a drawing effect on swelling.

Answer 5

that is not true that there is no cure..you have been western pharmaceuticalized...it is a circulation issue that has documented incredible results with Eastern medicine....acupuncture moxie stick and electric acupuncture cupping...please try it...the American Medical Industry does not want anyone to be cured but dependent on methods that don't work to keep their $$$ machine going.

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Answer 7

Lasater highlights Tadasana (Mountain Pose) as a key posture. "It brings awareness of the perfect standing position, which can then be transferred to the sitting position. When you sit or stand with the perfect spinal curves, you minimize the strain on the soft tissues of the head, neck, and arms which can lead to CTS." In addition, a simple backbending pose such as Dhanurasana (Bow Pose) "helps to counteract the forward-looking and forward-reaching posture many of us adopt when we sit all day at a desk," she adds.

CTS healing really comes down to two key factors, says Lasater—awareness and postural alignment. "All types of yoga are centered on teaching students to be aware of their posture, breathing, and thoughts. This helps increase awareness of postural habits, which can contribute to injury. And learning specifically how to sit, how to lift, and how to stretch during breaks at work can also be very useful. For this, yoga is the perfect teacher

Answer 8

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Answer 9

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Answer 10

The tingling is caused by excessive pressure on the nerve. The best way to treat that is to reduce the inflammation with medication like Motrin or Aleve, called NASIDs.

Carpal Tunnel syndrome is caused by a narrowing of the space in the connective tissue in the wrist joint. This is caused by over use of the wrist, which creates a pressure on the nerves and tendons. This narrow gap is caused by a very minor gene abnormality or just plain over use and improper use of the hand. It is considered a form of Arthritis and handled by a Rheumatologist. The carpals are very small bones that form interlocking joints that make a wide range of motion possible.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpal_tunnel
“In the human wrist there is a sheath of tough connective tissue which envelopes and protects one nerve (median nerve) and tendons, which attach muscles to the wrist and hand bones. The carpal tunnel is the space between this sheath (above) and the bones (below) making up the wrist and hand (carpal bones). The term 'carpal tunnel' is also used quite commonly to refer to 'carpal tunnel syndrome' which is a condition where the median nerve is pinched within the tunnel and causes pain and/or numbness of the wrist/hand, once thought to be a result of repetitive motion such as painting or typing.”

Check out Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpals
Look at the gray and color image to see just what 8 bones are involved. The wrist needs these flexible joints so it can run the nerves and tendons through the bone. If a ball-and-socket joint were used, like it is in the shoulder, then the tendons would get resistance and not the mechanical advantage required to give us our flexibility.

The best way to treat it is to use surgery to relieve the stress, or to make the channel in the bone larger. This is also the most drastic way to treat it and the most expensive. More often than not the risks of surgery are not worth it. Since any damage to the nerves is can result in chronic pain, loss of sensation, or even paralysis. Microsurgery inside the carpel bones is possible, but very difficult to do, and still a little experimental.

The next best way is to use a splint to keep the joint from bending, or to find a way to reduce the stress on the joint. It can be painful to wear that splint though (I know from experience), and take anti-inflammatory medications like Motrin or Aleve. Aspirin will not help; it works by breaking apart the blood platelets. In the case of a headache this can increase the blood flow to the region. It doesn’t handle inflammation very well though. Vitamin B6 could help with the inflammation or the pain, but it is not a cure, only a treatment.

Make sure you have the proper diagnoses. I was diagnosed with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome for a while until the pain spread to other joints and became more serious.

Prednisone is a powerful pain-relieving steroid that can be useful for the short term. It causes drastic and violent mood swings and bone necropsy over a longer period so I don’t recommend it (I was on it several times, Once I developed a spontaneous nose bleed another time I developed such and angry temper that my friends couldn’t believe me. It also caused me boughts of fear and sheer unreasonable terror reactions—very dangerous stuff.) You never know just what prednisone will do so I would use it very sparingly and only occasionally, however it is the cheapest and best pain relief I have ever used.

Carpal Tunnel is a life long condition; it will always crop up again and again. You need to relieve the stress on the wrist. Get a keyboard wrist support and thing about buying an ergonomic keyboard. Now days keyboards are universal so you can use one on your work computer without any problems (still I would contact the computer pro, at work, to make sure the proper drivers are installed on your computer, not on the network, and that they know you are doing this. Take frequent breaks from typing and try to avoid putting stress on the wrist joint.

Check out
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/carpal_tunnel/detail_carpal_tunnel.htm
Medicine.net: http://www.medicinenet.com/carpal_tunnel_syndrome/article.htm
About.com: http://arthritis.about.com/od/carpal/
Familydoctor.org: http://familydoctor.org/023.xml
EMedicine Health: http://www.emedicinehealth.com/carpal_tunnel_syndrome/article_em.htm
American College of Rheumatology: http://www.rheumatology.org/press/2005/carpaltunnel0205.asp

Beware of the scams though. If it sounds too good to be true then it probably is. Nothing will cure Carpal Tunnel Syndrome unless it increases the size of the channel inside the bone itself. Any topical treatment will be just as good as using something like Ben Gay (which contains the same pepper in mace, it causes an increased blood flow that can take fatigue poisons out of the area). These will be a temporary solution at best; they don’t treat the root cause or cure the behavior that caused the condition in the first place.

The only CURE for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is surgery. The only way to PREVENT it is to use a wrist support, or an ergonomic keyboard, or other such devices to relieve the stress. You can use a wrist splint to TRAIN your wrist not to move in the improper positions. There are many ways to RELIVE THE SYMPTOMS including drugs, acupuncture, and topical treatments, but they don’t cure the problem; they only provide a temporary solution.