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Can Your Shoulder Muscles Cause Carpal Tunnel Pain?

Tight shoulder muscles can cause pain in your carpal tunnel area.  Here's one way:

On your back you have two shoulder blades.  Maybe you can still move your shoulder blades or maybe you can't.  If we don't use muscles they have a tendency to get less flexible.

That means you will have less movement. :-(

There are muscles on each side of your back between your shoulder blade and ribs called the subscapularis.  Sometimes I just call it the subscap for short.  The subscap is one of your four rotator cuff muscles.  Those are the four muscles that allow your shoulder to rotate.

If you stop using those muscles--moving your shoulder blades--that affects the other rotator cuff muscles.  In fact, injury or weakness or stiffness (tightness) in any of the other three rotator cuff muscles will also affect your subscap muscle.

Now when your shoulder can no longer move easily through space that is called muscle imbalance. 

Sometimes restricted movement occurs because of pain.  Very often the pain is caused by the muscles.  Muscles are the most overlooked cause of joint and other pain in your hands and arms.

Your carpal tunnel is directly attached to your shoulder muscles.  

Try this:

Drop your

The Real Causes of Carpal Tunnel Symptoms - Video

I really like the massage therapist who made this video. Why? Because she believes the same things that I do about the causes of carpal tunnel symptoms.  

That's why I think she is brilliant!   :-)

So what IS the most common cause of Carpal Tunnel Symptoms? 

Your muscles!

Hilma will explain muscle imbalance in this video. 

This therapist knows that most hand and arm pain can be treated naturally. And she tells it like it is!

The interesting thing is that we both have such similar ideas and treatment strategies even though

• we never met
• we live many hundreds of miles from each other and
• we took completely different training!

But we both came to the same logical conclusions because they are true. 

In fact, we each created a product to help people understand why they have carpal tunnel symptoms and how to get rid of them naturally.  But if I had known of Hilma's first I wouldn't even have bothered. 

Hers is really good.

After you watch this video you can find more information and videos at http://CarpalTunnelPainStoppers.com (<--click here.)

 

Do You Have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Or Is Something Else Causing Pain In Your Hand And Wrist?

The carpal tunnel is the place in your wrist where nerves, blood vessels and other things pass through to your hand.  If there is swelling in the 'tunnel' and it presses on nerves and causes symptoms then your doctor might say, "You have carpal tunnel syndrome."

Maybe.  Or maybe not.

A syndrome is a bunch of symptoms.  Symptoms are things like weakness, pain, numbness, burning or nervy sensations.

Sometimes what seems to be CTS is actually not.  Often it's muscles that are causing symptoms that make the doctor think of CTS.

But lots of times doctors think

Is It Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Or Tight Muscles? Or What?

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a specific disorder that involves pressure inside the wrist.  There is a 'tunnel' that passes through the carpal bones of your hand/wrist. 

A 'syndrome' is a collection of symptoms.  It is not a disease.  It's a bunch of symptoms.

If there is swelling inside the tunnel there is pressure on the nerves and blood vessels that pass through the tunnel from your arm to your hand.  That causes symptoms.

Symptoms are things like numbness, swelling or pain.

Very, very often the symptoms in your hands are

Doctor Can't Find Reason For Your Carpal Tunnel Pain?

If doctors cannot find a reason for the pain in your hands and wrists that is GOOD NEWS!

The reason it is good news is because that almost always means the cause of your pain is muscles. And muscles can be treated. :)

The muscles in your lower arms can be a big part of the cause of your carpal tunnel pain. Sometimes your

Does Breastfeeding Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Does breastfeeding cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?  Certain positions and postures can cause pain in your hands and wrists. Let's look at an example and see possible answers.

I recently answered a plea for help from a new mom who is struggling with very painful Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in one wrist.

She believes it was brought on by breastfeeding and carrying her heavy new baby and a heavy 3 year old. She was given a steroid injection in the wrist. The pain subsided almost overnight but

How Many Muscles Are In Your Hand & Can They Cause Pain In Your Hand

Have you been wondering about the muscles in your hands? 

What do they look like? 

How many are there? 

Can they cause pain in your hand?

Click here to go to an article by my colleague Eric Troy that has lots and lots of content and pictures of the muscles in your hands, too. ---> http://www.gustrength.com/anatomy:intrinsic-hand-muscles

Can these muscles cause pain in your hand?  The answer is

What Is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And Is Surgery The Best Answer

What exactly is Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and is surgery the best answer?  Here's the lowdown:

The Carpal Tunnel is a passageway in your wrist formed by eight carpal bones, the transverse carpal ligament, nine flexor tendons, blood vessels, and the median nerve.  Pretty packed, isn't it?

Syndromes are bunches of symptoms.  When the median nerve is compressed it gets unhappy (nerves hate to be pressed on!) and causes symptoms like pain, tingling or numbness.

The median nerve allows feeling and function to your palm and fingers. "True" Carpal Tunnel Syndrome involves pressure on the median nerve inside

What Is The Cause Of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Sigh.  "No known cause for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome."  Or so says the article below.

It's a pretty good article about carpal tunnel symptoms and the newer endoscopic surgery (which has a smaller incision.)

But the surgeon who wrote the article says that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is "idiopathic."  That means there is no known cause.

Sigh.

I'm sighing because

Why Do Computer Technicians Get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome More Than Transcriptionists

Do computer technicians get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome more than typists who transcribe all day long?  According to studies by Dr. Christian Walker the answer is YES.

Here is the link to an article by Dr. Walker.  The language may seem a bit technical but you will probably get the idea.

http://ezinearticles.com/?Can-Changing-Your-Workstation-Prevent-Carpal-Tunnel-Syndrome?&id=4683440

What Dr. Walker says is that just because you

Numbness Or Tingling In Your Hand--Is It Carpal Tunnel Syndrome If There Is No Pain

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can have numbness or tingling without any pain.

Stress isn't a cause as such but it can cause tight muscles around the neck.  And THEY in turn can cause uncomfortable sensations in the hand. 

Muscles are the most common cause of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and they are also the most commonly overlooked cause.

If you go to http://CarpalTunnelRadio.com you will see the featured episode is about the muscles in your neck that cause carpal tunnel issues.  As you can see in the picture, they also cause knots or pain in your upper back and pain into your upper arm and chest.  If those areas are also a problem then

Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cause Pain In The Armpit

Can your Carpal Tunnel Syndrome cause pain in your armpit?  Here's a switch; I mean really a switch. 

Your wrist and hand symptoms can be caused by the muscles under your arm.  Under your armpit you have muscles that attach from ribs to arm and shoulder.  You have muscles in your chest that also attach to your arm.

When these muscles get tight, they can traction down on the nerves that pass through your arm to your hand.  The nerves hate being pressed on and so they cause discomfort in your hand.

Although short muscles don't usually complain, the ones under your armpit can be

What Does Double Crush Mean To Carpal Tunnel Sufferers

Your carpal tunnel symptoms can have many causes.  It is usually NOT caused by something directly in your wrist.  Yes, there may be swelling there that is giving you symptoms but why?

The "why" is the cause of your pain, tingling or numbness.  Those are called symptoms.  Get rid of the "why" and your symptoms will go away.

Nerves hate to be pressed on.  If you have bones OR muscles causing pressure on a nerve that runs into your hand, you

How To Tell If Pain In Your Hands Comes From Your Spine

There are many reasons for hand and wrist pain.  Most of them involve your muscles. 

Sometimes the pain in your hands comes from a whole body disorder; it could be hypo-thyroidism or rheumatoid arthritis.  If this is your situation, you should be under the care of a doctor.  Even so, you may find that taking natural steps to relieve your hand and wrist symptoms will help (at least some.)

And sometimes the pain, numbness and tingling in your hands comes from your neck bones (vertebrae or spinal bones in your cervical spine.)

Your neck bones stack up one over the other and nerves

Instant Relief For Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Who wants instant relief for carpal tunnel syndrome?  I know I would if I had it.  Bring it on!  :-)

And there are lots of products that claim either an instant cure or to work pretty darn quickly.  But you know what?  They most likely won't work.  Why not?

They don't respect the natural laws of your body.

Your carpal tunnel is attached to the rest of your body.  It's not just this little, itty-bitty wrist all lonely by itself.  It doesn't require just something squeezing it or stretching it or moving it or warming it or chilling it to make its pain go away.

There are many causes for pain in your hand and wrist and carpal tunnel syndrome is quite often mis-diagnosed.  Your doctor may have

What are the Physical Causes of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Hand and Wrist Pain

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a collection of symptoms.  You may have one or more things causing your symptoms.  Symptoms are such things are numbness, tingling or pain.

Here is a list of questions to ask yourself:

1.  How is your posture?  Posture that is collapsing forward can cause carpal tunnel pain.

2.  Where is your head?  A forward head can cause hand and wrist pain.

3.  What position do you work or play in?  Do you strain muscles in certain positions?

4.  Do you have vitamin or mineral deficiencies?  Is your diet healthy or not so much?

5.  Is your back

Musicians and Carpal Tunnel Pain

Many types of musicians get hand, wrist and arm pain.  They may believe it is caused by repetitive movement when they play their instrument.  More likely the pain is caused by doing the repetitive movement incorrectly (wrong.) 

And they probably don't even realize they are doing it wrong!

I received an email from a pianist who was afraid her career would stop before it even started because of

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome And Natural Relief With Massage and Chiropractic

This is a very good video about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and natural healing.

The chiropractor who does the presentation indicates that bones move and can press on the nerves in the carpal tunnel. He also indicates that a doctor who does manipulation can help.

The thing to remember is that muscles move bones.

If you do not have tight, out-of-balance muscles pulling on your bones, the bones will NOT move out of place (unless you have an accident which causes them to shift.)

That means if you release the tight muscles (allow them to relax) with massage or other self-help, your carpal tunnel pain can go away. There is a very good self-help video program that will teach you how to do your own muscle releases (<-- click here) for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other hand, wrist and arm pain.

This Carpal Tunnel Syndrome video comes from WholisticHealthDoc on YouTube.

Does Salt Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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 table salt on my popcorn, in the morning the tissues around my eyes would be swollen.  That means that other tissues were also swelled up.  Your body is a whole unit so whatever happens in one area is probably also happening elsewhere.

Since carpal tunnel symptoms may be caused by

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? What Is The First Thing You Should Do

Do you think you have Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?  What is the first thing you should do?

The answer is at Carpal Tunnel Pain Stoppers - Episode Two (<-- click here to listen) but I'll tell you here, too.

The very first thing to do is educate yourself.  An educated patient gets well more quickly than one who is not.  An educated patient also annoys their doctor more. :-)

Not that you want to annoy your doctor.  It makes it a little easier on the doctor when

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 are the ends of muscles that attach to bones.  If you hold your lower arm tightly and move your fingers, you will feel the movement way up in your lower arm toward your elbow.  Those are the muscle tendons for your fingers.  They attach to the bones in your lower arm.

Some nerves give you feeling or sensation and some nerves

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?  All by yourself?

C'mon.

Now, since there are many possible causes it could be that the "cure" promised in the advertisement might help.  Maybe you have the single cause that the cure was designed to help.

Or maybe not.

Because we have complicated, brilliant bodies (and did I mention smart and beautiful, too?) it's quite possible that you have more than one cause for your carpal tunnel pain. 

Getting rid

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 causing carpal tunnel area pain for her?

This position strains arm muscles.  It doesn't use your arm muscles in their most neutral position.  That means they are going to complain!

You can tell when a muscle complains because

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 narrowed for one reason or another, the median nerve is pressed.  The nerve causes symptoms because it doesn't like the pressure.  (It hates it.)

The tendons for your fingers also pass through the carpal tunnel.  (The tendons are the long ends of the muscles; they attach finger muscles to arm bones.)  That means there is only so much space in your tunnel and it is pretty well filled up normally.

If you overuse the tendons they might get inflamed and swell.  That can cause pressure on the median nerve.  If you gain weight, that can cause less space in the tunnel, too.  If you have swelling in the tissues called edema, that can also cause pressure on the median nerve.

So the cause of your symptoms is simple:  the median nerve is being pressed on.  It's complaining.  What's the cure?

By getting

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 do it in a "bad" posture.  I mean a posture that your body doesn't like.  Or, over the years your posture has failed because you haven't been constantly fighting gravity--and winning the fight.

Gravity is a strong force.  When your heavy head moves forward in front of your body, gravity can grab it and keep it in that forward position.  Why does this matter to you?

There are muscles in your