carpal tunnel-related problems

Carpal tunnel syndrome and other problems related to your carpal tunnel can cause significant pain and discomfort. Since we use our hands so frequently throughout the day for many different activities, suffering from pain in this area of your body can seriously impact your quality of life. We’ll look at some of the things you can do in Tampa to alleviate pain from carpal tunnel syndrome. Stay Warm Keeping the area warm can help to relieve pain, especially during the colder months. If you feel like your hands and wrists are often cold, take steps to keep them warmer. Cold weather can restrict blood flow throughout the body, and this can result in worsening pain and further problems. Wear gloves and use hot water bottles and other heat tools to boost your temperature and prevent further pain and problems as a result of the cold weather. Using heat to alleviate pain is one of the popular carpal tunnel syndrome treatments that you can do at home. Rolfing Rolfing is a […] Continue reading

The “Carpal tunnel” is an arch-shaped passageway beneath the wrist formed by the bones in our hands called “Carpals”. Numerous images illustrating this structure are available from online image searches. This passage allows nerves, blood vessels, and specific muscles and tendons to extend into our hands. This arch can become distorted from repeated movements and thereby put pressure upon the important parts that travel beneath. This will cause “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome”. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a problem associated with numbness and tingling in our hands, and more urgently problems with the strength of our grip and the dexterity of our fingers. Discomfort is often the first sign, and disfunction the second. Rolfers address this problem by rebuilding the shape of the carpal bones’ original arch. With carpal tunnel syndrome, there are usually movement limitations “upstream” of the hands. In a Rolfing session, people are often surprised to discover how much normal movement they have lost in their elbows, shoulders, and often necks. The Carpal Bones below the wrist can become […] Continue reading