Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS)

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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), seems like a simple issue to correct however sometimes conventional treatment methods fail and the recurrence rate of carpal tunnel can be rather high.  Sadly, if conventional treatments fail, majority of people do not voice their concerns to their doctors and instead feel like this is something they have to live with for the rest of their lives.

See, Carpal Tunnel is said to be a compression of the nerves in your wrist leading to numbness and tingling in your finger tips.  Sometimes this is the case and sometimes conventional treatment methods do assist in correcting the issue.  But what if conventional treatment fails?  Or, what do you do if you want to Avoid Carpal Tunnel Surgery altogether?

This is when we suggest you try something different.  The nerves in your fingertips run all the way up your arm, through your shoulder and into your spine.  Most of the time the symptoms of carpal tunnel arise from your spine.  If there are misalignments in your spine, placing pressure and irritation on the nerves that run all the way down your arm, symptomatically you may experience carpal tunnel syndrome.  When we adjust your spine and remove the irritation from those nerves, the symptoms of carpal tunnel tend to reduce.

There's a few things we can do in both the short-term and long-term to fix the cause of your carpal tunnel, and prevent its recurrence. 

1. Chiropractic Adjustments - As noted above, carpal tunnel symptoms can actually be caused by dysfunction in your spine.
2. Wrist Adjustments - YES!  We perform a lot of extremity adjustments too.  If the bones in your wrist are misaligned, that could be causing inflammation and irritation directly on the nerves in your wrist.
3. Nerve Flossing - This is a technique where we help to "floss" or guide the nerves to improve the flexibility and mobility of those nerves.