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It is actually a typical situation especially for those
with CTS. The carpal tunnel of your wrist contains the median nerve that
has been compressed while your have flexed your wrist. If you have a
condition that leads to swelling, the swelling may in turn pinch the
median nerve and thereby bring about CTS.
Over
time there have been several treatments for the carpal tunnel syndrome.
A lot of people may want to resolve to surgery because of the quick
remedy it offers. However, medical practitioners would advise that
choosing the conventional is best because it does not have any side-
effects that go along with it.
Here are some of the best carpal
tunnel massage techniques for relief and relaxation:
NEUROMUSCULAR
MASSAGE is a form of carpal tunnel massage that is applied to individual
muscles. It is used to increase blood flow, reduce pain and release
pressure on nerves caused by injuries to muscles and other soft tissue.
Neuromuscular massage helps release trigger points, intense knots of
tense muscle can also "refer" pain to other parts of the body. Relieving
a tense trigger point in your back, for example, could help ease pain in
your shoulder or reduce headaches.
ROLFING seeks to re-educate
your body about posture. When posture is poor, it can be reflected in a
number of health problems, such as backaches, headaches and joint pain.
This type of carpal tunnel massage
seeks to realign and
straighten your body by working the myofascia, the connective tissue
that surrounds your muscles and helps hold your body together. The
ten-session, head-to-toe Rolfing program used to be rather painful, but
new techniques that employ a therapist's hands and elbows are quite
tolerable and just as effective at improving your posture.
HELLERWORK
is an offshoot of Rolfing that adds both mental and movement
re-education to the physical work. In a series of 11 sessions from this
type of carpal tunnel massage, you get instruction on how to break bad
posture habits and you also get a massage that focuses on returning your
muscles and other tissue to their proper positions. The result can be
dramatic.
SWEDISH MASSAGE uses soothing, tapping and kneading
strokes to work the entire body, relieving muscle tension and loosening
sore joints. Therapists of this carpal tunnel massage use five basic
strokes, which anyone can learn and use on themselves and others. They
are effleurage (stroking); petrissage(muscles are lightly grabbed and
lifted); friction (thumbs and fingertips work in deep circles into the
thickest part of muscles; tapotement (chopping, beating, and tapping
strokes); and vibration (fingers are pressed or flattened firmly on a
muscle, then the area is shaken rapidly for a few seconds).
CRANIOSACRAL
THERAPY focuses on the skull and spinal column. Therapists use very
gently pressure no more than the weight of a nickel to massage the
bones, membranes and fluids that support and bathe your skull and spinal
column. The theory is that the manipulations of this ind of carpal
tunnel massage will reduce tension and counteract any physical trauma
you may have experienced to your head over the years. .
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