What is carpal tunnel syndrome? Well basically carpel tunnel syndrome is a disease where the patient feels a tingling sensation in their hands and arms. He might feel that his hand or arm has gone numb. This disease is mainly caused by the twisting of the nerve that goes to the wrist of the patient. This problem can be caused due to a number of reasons, including the nature of the work done by the hands, the forceful and sudden movements of the hands even sudden jerks done to the hand can cause carpet tunnel syndrome.
What is carpel tunnel? One may ask. Basically carpel tunnel is like a passageway, which does the function of a tunnel. These passageways or tunnels are covered with bones and ligaments and these are located in the …show more content…
There are a few things that the doctor considers before he verifies the presence of the carpel tunnel syndrome in the patient.
The doctor checks with the symptoms history of the patient. The pattern of the symptoms can provide a big clue for the physician to verify whether it's actually the carpel tunnel syndrome or not. The doctor also checks with the situations when the pain or numbness arises strikes the patient. The common situations when the pain actually comes to the patients when the person is actually suffering from the carpel tunnel syndrome are while holding a cup of tea or newspaper, holding the steering wheel or mobile.
The doctor also conducts some simple and effective physical tests to verify the presence of the carpel tunnel syndrome. Some of them might be gently tapping the nerve or pressing the palm of the patient's hand. He may also lightly twist the wrist or ask the patient to hold his hand above his head a minute or so.
If there is no pain or tingling sensation or numbness then the result is …show more content…
So it is best to avoid flexing your muscles as often as you can. People tend to flex their muscle while they eat, type, using their smartphone, chopping vegetables or holding the steering wheel. It is advised to keep the wrist in a neutral position i.e. the way that the wrists are not flexed and no pressure is given to the nerves. Flexed position will be when you gesture the stop sign with your hands and relaxed neutral position of your wrists are when you hand shake with others.
The main site from where the people get the carpel tunnel syndrome is the office. The constant typing, using keyboards and mouse without break and continuously will give pressure to the wrists and lead to the compression of the median nerve. So the first advise would be to take rests every 20 minutes from whatever you are performing with your hands and do little exercises like stretching. It does not matter even if you do not do any exercise, you just have to give your wrist a relief from the continuous motion or a change of course and intensity in the