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If you have carpal tunnel syndrome, you may experience numbness, tingling, burning, and pain sensations in your thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers. You may also experience occasional shock-like sensations that may radiate to your fingers.
The carpal tunnel is an osteofibrous canal located in the volar wrist. The boundaries consist of carpal bones forming the floor and the flexor retinaculum forms the roof. The retinaculum is about 3–4 cm wide and inserts into the scaphoid tuberosity and into the proximal carpal tunnel.
Minor surgery helps in releiving compression of carpal tunnel syndrome in your hand. An incision is made at the base of your palm, which allows the doctor to look at the transverse carpal ligament. The ligament is cut and the skin is closed with stitches. The gap where the ligament is cut eventually fills up with scar tissue.
The transverse carpal ligament compresses the median nerve in the hand leading to carpal tunnel syndrome. It is the only nerve which passes through the carpal tunnel.
A wrist cross-section helps in observing various nerves and muscles present in the wrist. It also locates the carpal bones, carpal tunnel and the median nerve.
By keeping your wrists straight, you can relieve pressure on your median nerve. Wearing a splint can help in relieving symptoms before they start. You can also wear the splint while performing certain repetitive tasks, which can alleivate your symptoms.
This represents a woman’s hand with her wrist supported by a splint. She is performing a muscle strengthening exercise by squeezing a soft ball. This exercise relieves carpal tunnel pain and also prevents occurrence of hand injury.
A brace support can help in keeping your wrist straight and maintain a neutral position. It can be used to treat a sport injury in your hand or in people suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome to releive pain.
You can protect your hands from developing carpal tunnel syndome by doing certain exercises. These exercises strengthen your hand nerves and muscles by increasing blood circulation in your hand and fingers.
Your fingers and thumb get severely affected due to the pain in carpal tunnel syndrome. You should try to keep your affected fingers in a stable position to help reduce the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome or another repetitive strain injury. Besides, you should also take frequent breaks when working on a desk or a computer.
Medical research community have evidences suggesting that yoga can be an effective method for treating carpal tunnel syndrome. The theory behind yoga to work in CTS is that it can mobilize the nerve by rejuvenating the median nerve through the carpal tunnel. Compression on the carpal tunnel can be relieved by stretching.