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carpal tunnel syndrome is where the artery (vein?) on your inner wrist becomes inflammed
so i would imagine, pain in the inner wrist
reduction in ability to move your hand via your wrist
Type like you learned in school (if you had a class for it). Hold your hands over the edge of the keyboard (dont let them lay down on the edge of the keyboard)
don't do any repetitive action for a very long time
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Dr Strangelove
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The first symptom is usually a feeling of numbness in the palm and / or fingers 1 through 3 in the morning or after heavy use of the hands. The tendons to the fingers of the hand and the edian nerve enter the hand through a sort of tunnel, the carpal tunnel. the tendons are surrounded by lubricating sheaths called synovia. If the synovia swell due to heavy use and "repetitive trauma" pressure on the nerve may increase to the point of impairing circulation to the nerve. At first this expresses itself as relatively short periods of numbness easily relieved by rest, but if untreated may lead to permanent sensory impairment and even weakness and wasting of the thumb and fingers.
The condition can be treated by splinting the wrist at night and when being used. Splinting reduces the friction between the tendons and synovia which presumably also reduces the swelling. Anti-inflammatory drugs like Ibuprofen are useful, as is re-designing the offending tasks to make them less stressful on the wrist. Sometimes steroid injections help, and finally, there are surgical procedures that relieve the pressure in the carpal tunnel space.
Another theory is that the afflicted may have had a curse put upon him. The curse can be lifted by finding the person who cast the spell and driving spikes through his or her hands. The procedure won't work however if you reveal the name of whomever told you how to break the spell.
Last edited by Dr Strangelove on 31-05-2005 at 08:54
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trev
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Adelaide, Australia
Feb 2003
time: 14:53
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Numbness of the hands while sleeping was the major symptom I suffered, a numbness that took up to 15 mins of hand, wrist and finger flexing to remove. Surgical treatment and a change of employment was the cure, lsubstantial loss of feeling in the tips of my fingers the permanent result
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MichaeltheGreat
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Apolyton Grand Executioner
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
time: 21:23
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quote:
Originally posted by Zkribbler
See?? According to DRoseDAR's link, it's a compression of the nerve. So no one here knows what they're talking about.
[Notice that  Dr Strangelove, Doctor Feelgood and Tiamat have not posted in this thread. So IMHO we're all a bunch of quacks.] |
Not quite, it's a compression of the sheath surrounding the nerve trunk (that's the tunnel) where it passes through the carpal bones (those little roundish ones that give your wrist mobility.)
I have traumatic injuries to both wrists/hands (three fractures in right wrist, fractures and nerve damage to outer half of left hand, traumatic arthritis in both) so I always pay attention to any symptoms affecting my hands and wrists, since I'm on the keyboard all the time.
Ergonomics is huge - I take my preferred keyboard and pointing device of the moment to client sites if I work there, and always tweak around workstation layouts to make sure they're as sound as possible.
I change pointing devices between mouse, trackball and pen tablet pretty frequently (once every month or two at least) so that I'm not constantly doing the same right wrist motion.
Power Putty absolutely rocks - http://www.healtheestuff.com/powerputty/
The difference with other hand exercises is that Power Putty lets you work extensions and abduction/adduction of the finger and hand muscles. I use it all the time, and it has had a major impact in keeping me able to work at a keyboard most of the day and often into the night.
As far as symptoms go, most nerve injury symptoms are quite variable, with numbness, pain, odd sensations (tingling or burning, etc.) or loss of coordination/mobility all being possible.
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I Am Jeff
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New Jersey
Feb 2002
time: 00:23
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I was around 17 when I started getting pain in my wrist. I went to a hand specialist and he said I had carpal tunnel syndrome even though I did not have numbness or tingling. I had surgery, that went about an inch or so into the arm. And a couple of months later and about 3 years after the pain started, the pain returned.
I then went to a neurologist and he said he doubts I ever had carpal tunnel syndrome. I have now been recommend to pain management at Kessler (they do a lot of rehabilitation stuff).
The only way they recommend to prevent it is moderation of repetitive tasks.
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