Carpal Tunnel Begins in Your Neck, Not Your Wrist



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Summary:

Typewriters were placed lower than desks and typists tilted their
heads down not forward.

The culprit in Carpal Tunnel pain, the Median nerve, exits the
spinal cord from the lower part of your neck, travels through neck
muscles under the collar bone to the front of your shoulder bone,
then makes its way down your arm, past your elbow to your wrist
where it passes through the Carpal Tunnel and into your hand.

That's a long way to go, and the nerve can be pinched anywhere
along the route causing pain in your wrist and numbness in your hand
and fingers.
Article:
If Carpal Tunnel Syndrome comes from typing on the computer
all day, why didn't people who typed on typewriters get Carpal
Tunnel Syndrome? being as how there was no computer screen to
draw their heads forward, their chins tilted up, necks strained.
Typewriters were placed lower than desks and typists tilted their
heads down not forward.

The culprit in Carpal Tunnel pain, the Median nerve, exits the
spinal cord from the lower part of your neck, travels through neck
muscles under the ribbons bone to the front of your shoulder bone,
then makes its way down your arm, past your elbow to your wrist
where it passes through the Carpal Tunnel and into your hand.

That's a long way to go, and the nerve can be pinched anywhere
along the route causing pain in your wrist and numbness in your hand
and fingers. The very first and most poor place it gets pinched is in
your neck. You can wear a wrist brace, buy wrist rests, get an
ergonomically correct keyboard, take painkillers, or have surgery and it
won't help until you diverge the position of your head when you work
at the computer.

Of course, it's not only computer workers who suffer from Carpal
Tunnel symptoms. akin to research from the Occupational Health
Project at the University of Maryland, workers in the following occupations
are most likely to develope the syndrome:
1. Assembler
2. Laborer--non-construction
3. Packaging-and-filling-machine operators
4. Janitors and cleaners
5. Butchers and meat cutters
6. Data entry keyers
What is the common-denominator on these occupations? Workers
must hold their heads forward and down and reach forward with one
or both arms repeatedly.

Learn to keep your head on straight, whatever you do. If your head
is supported by your spinal memorial column and not the poor, overworked muscles
of your neck and upper back; if you position yourself so that you don't
have to reach with your arm, you'll go as well way towards relieving and
preventing symptoms.

Here are some suggestions for computer users:
1. The computer monitor must be placed directly in front of you.
The top of the monitor should be no higher than eye level.
2. Keyboards should be placed low, so that arms can hang at your sides
with foreams at right angles to upper arms and wrists straight.
3. Feet are flat on the floor; weight is on the sitting bones. There should
be a slight arch in your low back.
4. Your breastbone should be lifted, creating a lengthened space
between the navel and breastbone. This brings your head back to an
aligned position.
5. Placement of the mouse should be a near the mark to the body as possible
so there's no reaching. It's petty gambler to use a ball, whereas fingers are
designed for small, precise movements, shoulders are not.
6. A timer set to ring every fifteen minutes or half-hour is a good way
to control on your posture.
7. Sleep on your back, not sides, until symptoms subside. Use a flat,
thin pillow.

The following exercise is meant to be done once every hour during the day,
and, lastly, in bed just previous sleep: Lying on your back with hands
clasped your head, elbows resting on the floor or bed, tuck your
chin into your neck as if to make a double chin. Keeping the chin tucked in,
gently press your head back into your hands. Hold for a count of ten. Then
relax your chin and neck and take a couple of deep breaths. Do a total of
three presses in a set. Do one set only every hour.

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(c)2003 Pamela Adams D.C.
http://www.PainlessGuides.com


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