3 of the worst things to do for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Hello
This week I am going to tell you the 3 of the worst ways to manage carpal tunnel syndrome pain. Some of them might even be very common advice that is doing the opposite of what it meant to.
Rest more
I know. The first thing to do is to get in bed a wait for the pain to be over. As we hope that will help make it better.
This makes perfect sense for the first time you had pain. Even more so when there was a specific event that caused the pain. Like falling on it or spraining it.
However, Carpal tunnel syndrome is different. The pain keeps on coming back out of the blue. Nothing seems to have caused it this time, and every time it comes back it gets worse. Or maybe there the whole time.
More rest will cause more issues. It’ll make you weaker, less able to do things like hold things in your hands without them falling out or the shorter you will be able to type.
More rest won’t help. If it did, wouldn’t you be better by now?
Taking more anti-inflammatories
When your knee is hurt taking an anti-inflammatory for a short while would make sense. To decrease the “inflammation”. Carpal tunnel syndrome is completely different. There is no injury because there is a nerve that is being pinched.
The problem with that idea is that inflammation is a good thing. It is the natural process by which the body heals itself. Inflammation is the medical term for the whole process. IF you have been injured, taking anti-inflammatories is like blocking the fire trucks on their way to put out a burning building.
With carpal tunnel syndrome, there is no injury at the moment that is causing the pain, If there was one it has long since healed.
If your pain came out of nowhere, no injury or anything, taking an anti-inflammatory will do nothing for you other than exposing yourself to the side effects of this medication without any potential upside. As there is no inflammation because there is no injury.
These types of medications have very serious side effects. That is why it is only supposed to be taken for a short time.
If you keep taking it, when you don’t need to, you will end up with severe problems like bleeding stomach ulcers.
Wait another week to see if it’ll get better.
This is the right move when it is the first time you had knee pain or something like that. For Carpal tunnel syndrome it isn’t.
Pinched nerves do not get better if left alone. They only get worse. What makes pinched nerves so dangerous is that they get worse slowly and subtly. One day you feel “fine” the next you struggle to hold something in your hand.
Like a frog put in cold water that you slowly heat….
The longer you wait, the worse the pain gets and the more your problems will cause problems all their own. It will cause things complicated mess of problems that you do not want.
Waiting before you get professional help will not work.
Did waiting longer to fix the leak in the roof make it easier to deal with?
I didn’t think so.
Jason
