Carpal tunnel syndrome, also called median nerve compression, is a condition that causes numbness, tingling, or weakness in your hand. Symptoms of carpal tunnel include:
- Burning, tingling, or itching numbness in your palm and thumb or your index and middle fingers
- Weakness in your hand and trouble holding things
- Shock-like feelings that move into your fingers
- Tingling that moves up into your arm
Causes of carpal tunnel syndrome include:
- Repetitive motions, like typing, or any wrist movements that you do over and over. This is especially true of things you do when your hands are lower than your wrists.
- Conditions like hypothyroidism, obesity, rheumatoid arthritis, and diabetes.
- Pregnancy
At Vivacare Advanced Physiotherapy and Pain Clinic, our physiotherapists will assess the cause of carpal tunnel and advise you with individualized treatment plan. The clinic provides following therapies to bring you quick and long term relief from pain.
- IFT
- TENS
- Ultrasonic Therapy
- Kinesiology Taping
- Heat and Cold Therapy
- Manual Therapy
- Theraband Stretches
- PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field Therapy)
To prevent recurrence of the problem you will be given an exercise regime which will include strengthening and stretching exercises for the muscles around the wrist.