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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

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome & Muscles Around Your Neck That Cause CTS

What does it mean when your carpal tunnel symptoms won't go away with therapy or with every self-help technique that you can think of?  That could mean the cause is something that you or your therapist haven't thought of:  the muscles around your neck.

Wait a minute.  How do the muscles around your neck cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

Well, you have muscles all over the place, even in your face and head.  And lots of muscles around your neck. 

Nerves come from your spine.  The nerves from your cervical (neck) spine go to your hands.

If the muscles

Vitamin B6 and Other Supplements for Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief

It's easy to have a vitamin deficiency (not enough).  Vitamins and minerals are very tiny but very powerful.  When you do not have enough of one or more, it's possible to have symptoms of that deficiency.

Scurvy and rickets are examples of symptoms that people used to get when they had certain vitamin deficiencies.

Many researchers and people who have suffered from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome claim

Is Carpal Tunnel Pain Caused By The Way You Sit?

Carpal tunnel symptoms can happen when your neck muscles aren't happy.  What makes them unhappy?  Lots of times it's the way you sit.

When you're sitting at your computer, are you sitting nice and straight?  Or, do you slouch?  Do you twist your legs under your chair?

Are you tilting your chin down or up instead of having a level chin?

How about when you watch television?  Do you always

"What 9 Out of 10 Doctors Won't Tell You About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome"

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Muscles In Your Neck Can Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome caused by muscles in your neck?  You bet!  So I figured it was probably time to talk about scalene muscles again.

Those are the nasty little muscles in your neck that can cause symptoms all over your upper body.  They can cause all sorts of pain.  They cause knots in your back between your spine and shoulder blades.  They can make your chest and shoulder hurt. The scalenes will make the back and front of your upper arm hurt. 

And of course, best (or worst) of all...they will cause carpal tunnel symptoms!

Well, they aren't nasty muscles actually.  They are

Types of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Discussed by Chiropractor

This video by Ohio chiropractor Dr. Jack Adrian does a good job of explaining why the cause of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not usually only in the wrist. 

As I have explained here many times, the cause of your symptoms can also be in your lower arm, your neck, or your chest or back muscles.  You may have one or more things causing symptoms.  It could even be a vitamin deficiency.

There are many schools of chiropractic and as in any other field, many doctors treat their patients depending on their own advanced training, personality and unique way of seeing and treating bodies.

Some doctors of chiropractic adjust fingers, wrists and other joints but

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Your Endocrine System

Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome be caused by the glands in your body?  Those glands rule everything!  They are called your endocrine system.

I did a very interesting interview with an woman who is an expert in the endocrine system. She had to become an expert in order to get rid of her own problems.

If you don't know what your endocrine system is or does yet, be sure to listen. It's about an hour long and chock full of very important information.

You can find the teleseminar interview (online seminar) here:

BOOST YOUR IMMUNE SYSTEM AND LESSEN YOUR PAIN

Your immune system is part of your endocrine system.

People who suffer from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can benefit from this information.  That's why I am sharing it with you.

When your endocrine system is happy, your whole body will be happier and that includes your carpal tunnel.

Who Gets Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

Why do you have carpal tunnel pain?  Who gets Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?  More importantly, how can you get rid of your symptoms?

"Symptoms" = pain, numbness, tingling, headaches, etc.
"Syndromes" = a collection or bunch of symptoms.

Apparently, occupations that require a lot of certain hand, arm or body positions suffer the most.  Those jobs include:

Plumbers
Computer repair people
Carpenters
Line workers in factories
Farm workers
Moms
Gardeners
And more!

Jobs that jar or jam the hand or use vibrating tools or require holding arms or hands in one position for long periods can aggravate the muscles around the wrist and cause symptoms in the carpal tunnel area.  Doing

The Role of Muscles and Trigger Points in Carpal Tunnel Pain

Did you know muscles are involved in most of our pain and pain syndromes including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?  Muscles can develop "trigger points" which "fire" or "trigger" pain into other parts of our bodies, sometimes at a far distance.

Along with a few other things, poor posture contributes to unhappy muscles and soft tissues that develop trigger points. A tight and tender area is not a trigger point: it must also trigger a symptom elsewhere. (Symptoms are things like pain, weakness, tingling, burning, etc.)

This is important: WHEN CARPAL TUNNEL THERAPY FAILS, it is most often because the muscles in your