| With Carpal Tunnel and Wrist Tendonitis being such a | | | | tight, and stay tight. |
| prevalent issue that involves various pains and | | | | When a muscle is tight, the tendons that connect |
| symptoms in the wrist area, one can start to wonder if | | | | muscle to bone get pulled on. So whatever the tendon |
| there is any connection to the development, onset, and | | | | connects to gets pulled on. So if your forearm muscles |
| progression of Arthritis. | | | | connect to the forearm, and the hand. If your forearm |
| The dynamic that causes Carpal Tunnel Symptoms | | | | muscles are tight, they pull your hand bones into your |
| can cause Arthritis. | | | | forearm bones. This compresses your wrist joint(s). |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome can cause Arthritis. | | | | Because muscles get tight and stay tight, even when |
| How does it do that? First we must look at the Carpal | | | | you sleep your wrist and/or your finger joints are |
| Tunnel Dynamic. | | | | getting compressed. When you are using your hands |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the end result of an ever | | | | during the day, every time you move your hands and |
| increasing Pain Causing Dynamic. | | | | fingers, those joints grind on each other. |
| We use our hands on a daily basis, and every time we | | | | The tighter your muscles, the more pressure the |
| contract a muscle, that muscle retains a tiny bit of that | | | | bones grind on each other with. |
| contraction. So we slowly get tighter and tighter. And | | | | Ideally joints glide smoothly. If the bones are |
| we stay tighter and tighter, even when we sleep. This | | | | compressed, then they are grinding instead of gliding. |
| has our structures get less and less circulation, less | | | | This irritates and eventually causes wear and tear |
| new blood and nutrition in, and less waste product out. | | | | damage to the inside lining of the joint. This leads to |
| This becomes an irritation. | | | | Arthritis. |
| Also, or connective tissue starts to slowly shrink wrap, | | | | Having said that, once arthritis sets into the joint, you |
| compressing our structures into an increasingly | | | | may or may not be able to heal. But it's safe to say, if |
| immobile state. Out body compensates as long as it | | | | you don't loosen the muscles and connective tissue |
| can, but eventually starts to lose the battle, and that's | | | | and turn off the Inflammation process, it will continue to |
| when we start to feel pain. The factor we need to | | | | get worse. And even if it's not possible to heal the |
| pay attention to in a context of getting or avoiding | | | | damage that's already there (I believe that it is), you |
| Arthritis, is the part of the dynamic where muscles get | | | | can greatly reduce your Arthritis pain and symptoms. |