Did you know that your muscles cause most of the pain in your carpal tunnel area? Due to our daily living and working patterns, the muscles in the front of our bodies tend to shorten.
They don't complain.
They just get short.
The muscles in the back of our neck and shoulders get overstretched.
And they love to complain! The overstretched muscles cause pain in your back, of course, and they can cause pain in your arms, wrists and hands, too.
The shortened muscles in the front of your body can also cause symptoms in the vicinity of your carpal tunnel.
Here's how it works.
We each have several hundred muscles in our bodies.
How many of your muscles do you suppose you use each day? Most of us use only sixty or so.
The same sixty muscles get used, all day long.
The others don't get used like they used to, when we were little kids.
So, we get out of balance.
The muscles in the front of our bodies get short.
They contract.
They don't complain.
They just get short.
And cause problems elsewhere! The short front muscles pull on the back muscles.
The muscles in the back of our body, our neck and shoulders, get overstretched.
And they do complain! Oh, boy, do they complain! Ever get that knot in your upper back, between your spine and shoulder blade? Most likely on the side of your dominant hand? Um hm, you know the spot.
Well, now you know what causes it.
When that area gets overstretched, it complains.
When a muscle complains, it is a symptom.
You might go to a massage therapist who rubs and rubs but the symptom won't go away.
It can't go away until the short muscles in the front of the body which are causing the symptom are released.
Getting back into balance can be done.
When you were little, you were in perfect balance.
You can get there again.