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Carpal Care - FAQsWhat causes Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
How does the Carpal Care Program work?
What causes Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?Many of today's occupations have developed to the point where job specialization requires the same hand and wrist motions to be repeated endlessly throughout the workday. Dentists, cashiers, clerks, assembly line workers, secretaries, computer operators, meat processors, and scores of others spend hours each day overusing the same muscles and tendons as if they were indestructible.
A sixty words-per-minute typist depresses the keys 18,000 times in one hour. Each and every press of the finger requires about eight ounces of pressure effort. In just one day, those fingers have pressed the equivalent of 54,000 pounds. That's twenty-seven tons pushed by the fingers' muscles and tendons per day!
This strain of repeated movement and pressure overworks muscles in the hands, fingers and arms and causes the nine tendons in the narrow carpal tunnel to become irritated, inflamed and swollen. Since the swollen flexor tendons inside the tunnel have nowhere to expand, they expand into each other and the adjacent median nerve. The final result of this swelling is additional pressure in the tunnel and, of course, on the median nerve itself.
As pressure increases in the tunnel due to tight muscles and inflamed tendons, the blood-carrying structures collapse leading to hypoxia, edema and fibrosis of the nerve. The end result is a nerve that does not receive nutrition, so it will not properly conduct synaptic impulses and cannot heal. This is the condition that causes the symptoms of CTS, such as pain, burning, tingling, numbness and loss of strength and motor function.
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How does the Carpal Care Program work?CTS that is caused by repetitive or sustained activities, acute wrist angle, vibration, temperature extremes or localized contact stresses can be prevented. Additionally, when symptoms have already manifested themselves, they can be alleviated in most cases.
When used regularly as directed, Carpal Care lengthens the overdeveloped and foreshortended muscle groups that have lost their normal range of mobility due to the repetitive motions required by the job. At the same time, it strengthens and conditions the weaker opposing muscle groups in the hands and forearms that have been left in a relative state of underdevelopment. By creating stabilized, balanced musculotendinous structures in the arm and hand, you can greatly reduce or eliminate the abnormal presssures in the carpal tunnel and on the median nerve, allowing the body's natural healing process to function.
Testing has shown that the Carpal Care Program's stretches and exercises will alleviate or greatly reduce the symptoms of pain, numbness, loss of strength, etc. in most anyone who has occupationally-induced CTS. People who already have even moderate-to-severe CTS symptoms have used Carpal Care with very successful results. Many reported that all of their symptoms had been totally eliminated in as little as three weeks.
This unique program with the adjustable resistance exercise band has proven to be equally effective for the post-operative therapy of CTS patients. Those who have used the program for post-operative therapy report being able to return to work with full levels of strength and mobility in about half the time normally associated with ligamental-release surgery.
It is very important that your health care professional authorize this or any other exercise program for post-operative use.
(Source Biosafe - Carpal Care)
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