Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - What Are the Causes and What Are the Cures For CTS? By Kathryn Merrow

The carpal tunnel is a bony area in your wrist with space for blood vessels and nerves to pass through. When the space becomes smaller due to swelling in your tissues (or sometimes a crushing injury) there is less space for the nerves and blood vessels. This causes symptoms in your hand and the area around your carpal tunnel because nerves DO NOT like to be squashed or compressed.

If you have symptoms in your carpal tunnel area, there's a good chance that you have pain elsewhere, too. There are many other symptoms you might experience along with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome because every part of your body is attached to every other part and all the parts work together. That means you most likely also have headaches, backaches, pain in your neck or shoulders, migraines, jaw pain or TMJD, or other complaints. Why?

Because it's all attached! You are one unit. You're not a bunch of individual body parts.

So, what causes carpal tunnel pain and these other complaints? Poor, collapsing posture is one really good bet. Here's a mistake many doctors, physical therapists and massage therapists make. They treat the symptom area. They don't look for the cause of the pain or symptom. The CAUSE is the important part. Get rid of the cause and the symptom will go away.

When you think of symptoms, think of "cause" and "effect." Symptoms are an effect. Unless it's quite good, your posture is most likely a cause of your pain. How can you fix your posture? There are two parts:

* Loosen, or stretch, the muscles in the front of your body. You started to collapse forward and get "forward head" posture because the muscles in the front of your body started becoming short.
* The second part of the correction is to strengthen your whole back side from your knees to the base of your skull.

You have a smart body that wants to be well.

Your body follows natural "laws." You must understand these laws and help your body get back to the same wonderful neutral posture you had as a little child. You definitely ARE worth the time and effort it will take to get rid of your carpal tunnel pain naturally.

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