Physical Therapy for Carpal TunnelIn Louisville, Evansville & Southern Indiana
Carpal tunnel syndrome affects nearly three million people in the United States per year in some capacity. A physical therapist will help to strengthen and stretch affected muscles and suggest modifying your activities to give you relief.
Physical therapy is the best treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome. Your physical therapist at ProRehab is trained in the best ways to examine and treat the issues surrounding your carpal tunnel syndrome. Your PT will train you in exercises, help to modify your daily activities, and offer you long-term solutions to resolve your carpal tunnel syndrome for good! Your program will include exercises to improve the mobility of joints and the strength of muscles in the neck, shoulders, and wrist.
Main Causes of Carpal Tunnel
Carpal tunnel syndrome impacts about five percent of the United States population! The primary cause of carpal tunnel syndrome is a lack of necessary space for the median nerve to travel through the wrist. Many tendons, muscles, arteries, and nerves pass through the wrist. The inside of your wrist is already compressed and this compression worsens when someone overuses the wrist and forearm. Common ways to overuse these areas are typing all day, lifting, or repetitive activities that require the wrist to turn or bend. The nerve compression causes pain, weakness, and numbness in the forearm, thumb, index, and middle fingers.
How to Get Carpal Tunnel Relief
Carpal tunnel treatment strategies include surgery to provide compression relief, physical therapy, and medications for inflammation and pain. You should seek treatment if you have any symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome because your outcome will be better if treatment starts early! Physical therapy is necessary with or without surgery to restore normal strength and flexibility at the wrist. You will also need to stop doing activities that increase your numbness or pain and limit movement at the wrist while the area recovers.
Physical Therapy Solutions for Carpal Tunnel
Your physical therapist will advise and educate you on ways to continue doing some of your necessary tasks while the inflammation decreases in your wrist. While changing activities, your therapist will also aim to strengthen, stretch, and mobilize any areas that need these treatments. Your therapist will look at all your symptoms and the cause of them to prevent the pain, weakness, and numbness from returning. Your therapy program will be adjusted as you make progress to avoid plateaus in your recovery. See a physical therapist today to address your pain and quickly return to your hobbies and activities without pain!
