Can Lifting Weights Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Can any type of strength training or weight workout actually improve the structures within the wrist and help prevent carpal tunnel syndrome? […]
Can Mental Stress Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Do your fingers tingle when you’re stressed out? Could all your stress actually cause carpal tunnel syndrome to develop? […]
Should You Stop Lifting Weights with Cubital Tunnel Syndrome?
Is cubital tunnel syndrome a reason to stop lifting weights? […]
Bodybuilding Guidelines for Painful Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Are you a bodybuilder or muscle building enthusiast who also has painful carpal tunnel syndrome? […]
Can Forearm Workouts Cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Forearm workouts involve a lot of tension in the wrist area, which is where carpal tunnel syndrome occurs. […]
Tingling, Numbness and Pain in Both Hands Isn’t Always CTS
Pain, numbness and tingling in both hands can easily be misdiagnosed as carpal tunnel syndrome. Another, much less known condition can mimic CTS. ***** Sometime in early September 2018, I started feeling pains of tingling [...]
Can MS Cause an Arm to Fall Asleep at Night?
You wake in the middle of the night or early morning to find that your arm feels like a lifeless log: numb and asleep. You also have MS and wonder if there’s a connection. To [...]
Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cause a Weakened Grip ?
If you’ve been noticing a weaker grip lately, this doesn’t necessarily point to carpal tunnel syndrome, though this condition CAN cause a weakened grip. In fact, carpal tunnel syndrome can weaken the grip enough to [...]
Why Don’t Kids Using Computers Get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
If typing, keyboard work and using a mouse are leading causes of carpal tunnel syndrome, you’d think there’d be scads of children and teens getting this condition. […]
What’s the Youngest You Can Get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Now isn’t it funny that all these kids spending hours every day on their keyboard but few young people seem to get carpal tunnel syndrome? […]
Does Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Always Cause Pain?
Carpal tunnel syndrome can be quite painful, prompting frustrated patients to seek a surgical solution. But for some individuals with this common disorder, there is never any pain. Tingling and/or numbness may be the only [...]
Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Make Fingers Crooked?
If you’ve been noticing lately that your fingers are becoming crooked, you’ll actually wish that this was only carpal tunnel syndrome. Because what it most likely is – is far less treatable than carpal tunnel [...]
Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cause Your Palm to Itch?
The itching of your palm is driving you mad and there seems to be no explanation for this itching – except maybe carpal tunnel syndrome? Well, don’t go there. “Itching, which is called pruritus, is [...]
Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cause Cracking Wrists?
So your wrist is going snap, crackle pop! Maybe there’s even some pain or tingling along with the cracking in your wrist: carpal tunnel syndrome as a cause for cracking of the wrist bones? “CTS [...]
Why Can’t Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Go Away on Its Own?
If you don’t think carpal tunnel syndrome can go away on its own, there’s actually more hope than you’ve been thinking about this common and sometimes very painful condition. […]
Finger Tingling from MS vs. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Both multiple sclerosis and carpal tunnel syndrome can cause tingling in the fingers. However, the tingling of MS is more likely to occur in the forearm when it’s in an upper extremity. But carpal tunnel [...]
Can ALS Cause Hand Symptoms that Mimic Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?
Unfortunately, early symptoms of ALS can masquerade as symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. If you wait long enough and have ALS, you’ll eventually suffer the progressive symptoms of this neurodegenerative disease. […]
The Worst that Can Happen if Carpal Tunnel Is Never Treated
If you don’t get treatment for your carpal tunnel syndrome, it may spontaneously improve, OR, you may end up with permanent pain and grip weakness. The tricky thing here is that you can’t tell for [...]
Weightlifting Guidelines for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Pulling
If you have carpal tunnel syndrome you’ll need to follow some guidelines if you want to do weightlifting that involves pulling like deadlifts, rows, pull-downs and pull-ups. […]
Carpal Tunnel Wrist Brace: Hand Falls Asleep at Night: Solution
If your hand falls asleep at night from a wrist brace for your carpal tunnel syndrome, there’s a cause & solution, straight from a carpal tunnel doctor. […]
Can You Suddenly Get Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in Both Hands ?
Sudden carpal tunnel syndrome in both hands is also referred to as “acute bilateral” carpal tunnel syndrome. And yes, this can happen: A person can develop sudden-onset carpel tunnel syndrome affecting both hands in a [...]
Can Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Cause Pain in the Entire Arm ?
Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause pain in your entire arm, but not without the help of another neurological disorder. To relieve the whole arm pain, you must have both conditions treated. […]
Doctor Says Exercise Won’t Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
Unfortunately, says Jonathan Oheb, MD, there’s no exercise that can prevent carpal tunnel syndrome. Symptoms of CTS Tingling and/or numbness in the thumb, index and third fingers, and the thumb-side of the fourth finger. Pain [...]
Conditions that Mimic Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
There are seven conditions that mimic the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. First up is pronator teres syndrome. “Whereas carpal tunnel syndrome is compression of the median nerve at the wrist,” begins Jonathan Oheb, MD, North [...]
Wrist Pain While Lifting Weights: Causes, Solutions
A doctor provides causes and solutions to wrist pain while weightlifting. What are the possible causes of wrist pain that is brought on during a weightlifting set? “This can often be related to De Quervain’s [...]
What Is Pronator Syndrome: Causes, Solutions, Prevention
Pronator syndrome can cause painful symptoms in the hands and forearms that mimic carpal tunnel syndrome. Pronator syndrome is when the pronator teres muscle of the forearm presses upon the median nerve, the same nerve [...]
Carpal Tunnel vs. Pronator Syndrome: Symptom Comparison
Jonathan Oheb, MD, compares the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome with pronator teres syndrome. “Whereas carpal tunnel syndrome is compression of the median nerve at the wrist, pronator syndrome is median nerve compression at the [...]
How Normal Is Pain After Carpal Tunnel Release?
There are two explanations for pain persisting after carpal tunnel release. What is a carpal tunnel release? The median nerve and tendons pass through a narrow passageway in the wrist: the carpal tunnel, formed at [...]
10 Minute Carpal Tunnel Release: No Stitches, Fast Recovery
Traditional carpal tunnel release requires up to three months of recovery, leaves scars and requires restrictive bandages up to two weeks following surgery. However, there is a shorter, less invasive carpal tunnel release surgery that [...]
What Exercises Relieve Carpal Tunnel Surgery Pain?
After carpel tunnel syndrome surgery, it’s possible to experience lingering or residual pain that might shoot up the entire arm and affect the shoulder. Remember, the carpal tunnel compression has caused irritation to the median [...]
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Why Post-Surgical Bandages Are So Thick
If you have carpal tunnel syndrome and planning on having the traditional, “open” surgical technique, you'll be required to wear thick bandages that cover the carpal area of your hand for up to a few [...]
Hand Exercises After Carpal Tunnel Surgery to Regain Strength in Senior Citizens
After my mother had carpal tunnel syndrome surgery on both hands, she was left with weakness in both hands; weak fingers and a weak grip. This is because the carpal tunnel syndrome progressed from mild to severe [...]
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Causes Cold Hands and Pain
Carpal tunnel syndrome can cause hands to feel cold, and it can also cause discomfort in the hands and even forearms. In fact, the symptom of cold hands can precede any symptoms of actual pain [...]
What Is the Best Painkiller for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome ?
The pain of carpal tunnel syndrome isn't the same kind of hurt that comes from injured cartilage, tendons or arthritic joints, so you need a painkiller that targets the specific problem of CTS. Carpal tunnel syndrome [...]
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Symptoms vs. Impinged Neck Nerve
Did you know that the symptoms of an impinged neck nerve can masquerade as carpal tunnel syndrome? A doctor might get fooled by this. This happened to my mother. The doctor who misdiagnosed my mother’s [...]