http://www.cubicletimes.com/2010/01/carpal-tunnel/ ~news happening around my cubicle~ Thu, 09 Sep 2010 01:34:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.cubicletimes.com/2010/01/carpal-tunnel/comment-page-1/#comment-371 admin Tue, 04 May 2010 04:33:18 +0000 http://www.cubicletimes.com/?p=494#comment-371 thanks for the suggestion and comment, Bryan ~! your site has some good stuff on exercise, too! :) thanks for the suggestion and comment, Bryan ~! your site has some good stuff on exercise, too! :)

]]> http://www.cubicletimes.com/2010/01/carpal-tunnel/comment-page-1/#comment-369 bryan Mon, 03 May 2010 21:11:43 +0000 http://www.cubicletimes.com/?p=494#comment-369 I clicked over to look at the exercises and most of them were okay. I wouldn't recommend doing some of them from a wheeled chair tho'. The one thing that you wrote about being 6 months into an injury is pretty much hitting the nail on the head. I am not sure if the time frame is accurate, but, let's face it, we all put off taking care of ourselves when we should. One of my patients (I'm a PT) told me that she had had carpal tunnel like symptoms for years and never went to get it looked at or addressed. This just makes it that much harder to treat. The one thing that I could tell people is this: If you are starting to notice some numbness or pain, especially at night, just go out and do some exercise or activity. You don't have to join a gym or anything like that. Just go out and throw a frisbee or football. Go bowling. Many times, people think that going out and doing something like this will "make it worse". That's nonsense. The thing that brought it on in the first place is the typing and data entry, not playing basketball or horseshoes. Many times that how I have successfully treated my patients. I get them doing some large ROM activities that they have fun doing. This works wonders. I clicked over to look at the exercises and most of them were okay. I wouldn’t recommend doing some of them from a wheeled chair tho’.
The one thing that you wrote about being 6 months into an injury is pretty much hitting the nail on the head. I am not sure if the time frame is accurate, but, let’s face it, we all put off taking care of ourselves when we should. One of my patients (I’m a PT) told me that she had had carpal tunnel like symptoms for years and never went to get it looked at or addressed. This just makes it that much harder to treat.
The one thing that I could tell people is this: If you are starting to notice some numbness or pain, especially at night, just go out and do some exercise or activity. You don’t have to join a gym or anything like that. Just go out and throw a frisbee or football. Go bowling.
Many times, people think that going out and doing something like this will “make it worse”. That’s nonsense. The thing that brought it on in the first place is the typing and data entry, not playing basketball or horseshoes.
Many times that how I have successfully treated my patients. I get them doing some large ROM activities that they have fun doing. This works wonders.

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