Non-surgical Carpal Tunnel Treatment Breakthrough
AHHH, another long-winded article featuring the usual brilliance and wit you’ve come to expect. That’s right, your friendly neighborhood chiropractor strikes again (notice there is no choir in chiropractor; I can’t sing. a note)
Lets talk carpal tunnel, one of my favorite things to iron out. So, what is it? It is a condition involving the compression / entrapment of the median nerve of the wrist and hand. Classical thinking believes that he place in which this nerve gets squashed is at the wrist. This thinking is outdated says Hunter, 1991, Journal of Hand Clinics . He staged 700 tendon surgeries, in which he placed 4 stainless rods in the carpal tunnel (at the wrist) and he did NOT produce any signs or symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. These symptoms would include: tingling sensations in three and a half fingers, burning pain or numbness at night, and later a wasting away of some of the hand muscles. Interesting, yet the surgical protocol is to cut the wrist and relive pressure there.
In 1992 another idea flashed on the scene with a great article written by Leahy and Mock, Vol. 6, #4, JCSM which looked at 90 cases of CTS and postulated that the cause was actually fibrous fixation (scarring) of the nerve, and these cases were ALL successfully treated in 3-10 visits. What doctor, no matter what kind, can guarantee that?! This sparked my curiosity, so I looked further and found the right people and learned about this treatment.
If you are waking up rubbing and shaking your hands to relieve this, you need to see me! Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common cause of peripheral nerve entrapment. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had surgery or not. We can still treat it.
“Most people think a balance meal is a hamburger in each hand.” -Pastor John Hagee
