Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Pain Relief Tips:
Because I spend hours every day typing on the computer, I eventually ended up having symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. Like so many other life experiences, I didn’t fully appreciate how painful carpal tunnel is until I experienced it myself. It’s really agonizing at times, like a tooth ache in my wrist.
My massage therapist gave me my first really good tip on pain relief for my own carpal tunnel when she suggested taking Vitamin B-6. She calls B-6 the “fine tuner” of the B Vitamins and said a dose of about 250 mg was needed.
I can definitely say it helped. In addition to the B-6, I got massage. It’s important to find a therapist that has worked with carpal tunnel. There are specific ways to work with those areas and if a therapist has not trained for that, it could make it worse.
Wearing a wrist brace when driving and typing helped also.
And finally, I folded a towel and placed it beside my pillow at night so that when I lay on my side, the wrist would be lifted a bit off the bed. This helped me get relief at night and feel a lot better when I woke up.
To prevent getting to the point I got to, gentle stretching by placing the hand palm down and facing inward and then stretching that wrist area by carefully pushing down on the palm is a good preventative.
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