| One of the biggest fears I hear from people suffering | | | | reversed. Unless you are one of a tiny number of |
| from Carpal Tunnel is a fear of the damage from | | | | people with a genetically malformed bony tunnel in the |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). | | | | carpal bones, or you have had a crushing or smashing |
| After months or years of pain and numbness, people | | | | injury to the wrist, or you have a tumor growing in your |
| get to a point where they realize that it's just not going | | | | wrist, the mechanism that is causing pain, numbness, |
| to go away. Then they start to fear that there is | | | | and weakness can quickly and reliably be reversed. |
| actual damage and that the pain and numbness may | | | | But if you continue to do the things you've been doing, |
| be or be becoming permanent. | | | | continue using methods that fail to help like rest, |
| So the question is, can the pain and numbness from | | | | anti-inflammatories, splints and braces, etc, then your |
| Carpal Tunnel Syndrome become permanent? | | | | symptoms will effectively be permanent. If you keep |
| If you ask doctors, the answer is "Yes". | | | | using the wrong tools for the job, you will continue to |
| If you ask surgeons, the answer is "Yes". | | | | get poor results, if any. |
| If you ask most other health professionals, the answer | | | | It is important to understand that if you are still having |
| will be "Yes". | | | | symptoms that just means that you aren't using the |
| If you look on the internet, the answer is definitely | | | | RIGHT tools to get the job done. |
| "Yes". | | | | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is simple to beat once you |
| However, when you learn to understand the Carpal | | | | know how. It does take some time and effort, but it's |
| Tunnel dynamic, how it progresses, and the pain | | | | quick and reliable. |
| mechanism, you will see that the real answer is "No". | | | | Even if you've tried many other options and you still |
| The pain and numbness from CTS is only permanent | | | | have numbness and pain, it just means those options |
| by default. | | | | haven't been the right ones to reverse the pain |
| If you don't do the right things to reverse the dynamic, | | | | mechanism. Even if you have had symptoms for |
| then symptoms will be around permanently. Not | | | | years and years. |
| because there is actual damage or injury, but because | | | | Even if you've had surgery and still have pain, the |
| the structure and ecology of your arm has slowly | | | | mechanism can be reversed. |
| shifted to a design that will constantly and continually | | | | Why? Because Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not an |
| cause numbness and pain. | | | | injury. There is no damage that has taken place (even |
| Most people think of permanent as meaning that | | | | if pain and common sense tells you otherwise). CTS is |
| there's nothing that can change it. Using this definition, | | | | a physical Downward Spiral of increasing tightness, |
| CTS is absolutely NOT permanent. | | | | constriction, and pain. |
| No matter how bad the symptoms are, no matter how | | | | CTS in not permanent -IF- you learn how to effectively |
| long you have had the symptoms, the dynamic can be | | | | make it go away. It is permanent if you don't. |