carpal tunnel | SIMPLE PAIN RELIEF with Kathryn Merrow, the Pain Relief Coach

Roll Your Shoulders to Relax Your Back and Arms

Muscles get “stuck” in the positions that we use the most. Doesn’t matter whether the position makes you feel good or not-so-good. Muscles become “comfortable” in the positions they’re used to. Doesn’t matter to them whether YOU are happy or not!

Rolling your shoulders is one way to get your shoulder muscles back into balance. It help them get “un-stuck.” What do I mean by “rolling”? Just watch the little video below.

I demonstrate how easily you can start making circles with your arms–2 different moves–that will help the muscles all around your shoulder. This gets the circulation going. It gets your muscles cooperating again. It will help relax your back and “massage” your arms.

Pay attention to the feelings in your shoulders, upper body and arms as you do these movements. Don’t worry if you hear a little “clunking.” That just means there is some imbalance. You may notice that it becomes less over time as your muscles get used to working together again.

If it’s very difficult to do these movements, then only do them to the best of your ability and comfort level until your shoulder muscles and joints become used to moving again. And remember: It’s your body and you always have to make the decision about what’s best for you.

Here’s the video.

September 9November 7

Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief

If you are suffering with Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, I have some excellent options for natural help for you.

What is “natural” help? It means working WITH your body to relieve your symptoms.

What are symptoms? Your pain, tingling, numbness, headaches, sleeplessness, knots in your back and more; all of those are symptoms.

Your doctor may say, “Oh, a nerve is being pinched. That what’s causing your pain.” Yes, but WHY?

There is always a reason for our symptoms. There is always a “why.” Let’s get rid of the “why’s.”

Here’s how you can find WHAT natural steps you can take to get rid of your pain:

1. You can listen to Carpal Tunnel Radio. I pack each episode with as much information as I can to help you become pain-free naturally. You can click on that link.

2. Another option is Carpal Tunnel Pain Relief. It’s loaded with articles that cover lots of the causes of your symptoms. You can discover WHY you hurt and the natural steps you can take to get rid of your pain.

You have a smart body. It wants to be well. It needs your help. You must take action.

You can have carpal tunnel pain relief naturally.

March 5November 7

Trigger Points and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Trigger points are a type of really crabby spasm in your muscles or other soft tissues. Trigger points “trigger” (cause) pain and symptoms like weakness, tingling and numbness in other parts of your body, sometimes at quite a distance.

When I was getting a presentation ready about the causes of trigger points. I realized that the same things that cause trigger points also cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome!

So what causes both trigger points and carpal tunnel symptoms? Here are seven causes:

Stress.
Allergies and chronic infections.
thyroid and blood disorders, like anemia.
Vitamin and mineral imbalances or deficiencies.
Doing repetitive movements, incorrectly.
Asymmetric bone structure: having one leg longer than the other or one-half of your pelvis being smaller than the other.
Forward-head posture or collapsing-forward posture. This is very common and it causes a lot of strain on your upper body muscles. Muscle strain can cause trigger points which “fire” into your hands, arms and wrists.

Certainly, you don’t have all of those, but you may have one or more.

It’s relatively easy to release your trigger points, once you know where there are “hiding out.”

You can go to Carpal Tunnel Radio to listen to a little 15-minute audio about “Carpal Tunnel Triggers” that I did on Thursday, March 5, 2009. It will give you a lot more information about triggers and trigger points for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

“Because You Deserve to Feel Better!”

February 4November 7

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – What Causes Carpal Tunnel Pain?

In my land of “the way things ought to be,” we would all be in perfect physical (and mental!) balance.

We wouldn’t have any pain, of course, because most pain–about 90% of all pain–is caused by out-of-balance muscles. That includes carpal tunnel pain.

You might have thought that you have pain or numbness in your hand, wrist, fingers or arm because you are doing a lot of repetitive movements.

The real reason is that you are doing a lot of repetitive movements incorrectly. (Or maybe you have some inflammation, extra weight, diabetes or something else going on.)

Hmmm. If you were using all of the rest of your muscles, you would be pretty well balanced. If you were pretty well balanced, you would hurt less.

But you don’t.

We use only about the same 60 or so muscles over and over. Most of us haven’t used ALL of our muscles since we were young kids.

And we have a LOT of muscles.

So, there are two parts to relieving your carpal tunnel pain when it is caused by repetitive movement (also called repetitive stress or motion.)

1. Doing repetitive movements in an incorrect way, for example, over-stretching your muscles. The cure for this would be to explore and find the least damaging ways to do repetitive movements.

For example, holding your elbow close to our body instead of reaching out with your arm. Holding your arm close to your waist causes less muscle strain, and so less pain in your arm and hand.

2. Being physically out-of-balance in general. When some of our muscles are being over-stretched and some are allowed to shorten–due to poor posture or habits–we get symptoms of pain, discomfort or numbness.

When we strengthen our back and the back of our arms and neck, we take a lot of pressure off the structures that cause carpal tunnel pain.

You can find a lot of simple strengthening movements by clicking here.

“Because You Deserve To Feel Better!”