Arm Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment
You may feel aching, burning, numbness, or tingling in your palm, wrist, thumb, or fingers. The thumb muscle can become weak, making it difficult to grasp things. Pain may extend up to your elbow.
Carpal tunnel syndrome occurs when an important nerve (called the median nerve) gets compressed at the wrist because of swelling.
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I have many medical problems ranging from collagen vascular, fibromyalgia, mitochondrial myopathy, strokes, carpal tunnel, reflux, cataracs, diabetic2, asthma, restless legs, raynauds. I started having pain in my joints after the birth of my third child in about 1975 at age 23. I have been to various doctors, clinics like university of Michigan and Cleveland, mri, cat scans, spinal tap, ....
they say working's good for you, builds characters...but in my case, my work in front of a computer all day long has actually been really bad for my wrists.
During both of my pregnancies, I developed terrible carpal tunnel syndrome. Every night after I had been sleeping for a few hours, I would wake up with excrutiating pain in my hands and fingers, which would last for the rest of the night. My doctor told me that it was from the extra water weight and swelling I was experiencing ....
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| Name | Average Result | Healed | Helped a Lot |
Helped a Little |
No Change | Made Worse | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Treatments (average) |
2.7
(27)
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6 | 2 | 19 | |||
| Diet and Weight Management Weight Loss |
5.0
|
1 | |||||
| Therapy Heat |
5.0
|
1 | |||||
| Therapy Massage |
3.5
|
1 | 1 | ||||
| Drugs and Supplements Pain Killers (Analgesic) |
3.0
|
1 | 2 | ||||
| Medical Devices and Equipment Splint |
3.0
|
1 | |||||
| Drugs and Supplements Advair |
2.8
|
1 | 3 | ||||
| Drugs and Supplements Albuterol |
2.8
|
1 | 3 | ||||
| Exercise Frequent Rotation of Wrists |
2.2
|
1 | 4 | ||||
| Drugs and Supplements Acyclovir - Zovirax |
2.0
|
2 | |||||
| Medical Devices and Equipment Elbow brace |
2.0
|
4 |
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