How Do You Help Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment?
Help Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment, with some tips and wisdom to alleviate pain. 1. Spontaneous resolution with a placebo gives recovery in 50% of cases, 80% respond in short term cases. 2. Avoid extremes of flexion (bending forward) and extension (bending backward) movements over the wrist joint. 3. Eliminate the cause by avoiding repetitive trauma 4. Avoid use of any tool which involves vibratory movements like using a drilling machine or fixing a screw with a screw driver etc. 5. Use of splints to give rest to the movements through immobilization. 6. Always avoid use of hyperextension braces. 7. Wrist and hand exercises for a brief period. 8. Local or systemic corticosteroids can be considered and an injection can be tried over the area of the carpal tunnel. 9. Consider use of systemic corticosteroids in a tapering dose namely 20 mg prednisone four times a day for 2 weeks followed by 10 mg four times a day for 2 weeks. 10. Local ultrasound therapy for 6 weeks can give relief for
