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Q: Acupuncture as a treatment for Carpal Tunnel? Did it work?
I am in alot of pain and am currently seeing a Chiropractor because my insurance covers chiropractic care.

I had great success with acupunture to treat sciatica. Does it work for carpal tunnel?

A: I have a friend with carpal tunnel who was being treated with acupuncture. After several sessions, she began to notice really positive changes in her condiiton – so positive and impressed with the results that she decided to become a licensed acupuncturist herself. She’s currently in her second year in undergrad planning to apply this year.

Now of course, this is based on one experience. However, pain management is one of the main strengths of acupuncture in the eyes of Western medical MD’s. There are literature and research supporting acupuncture’s ability to alleviate pain, that many medical schools here in the U.S. have either offered classes or elective rotations in their medical curriculum courses.

As with your case, speak with an acupuncurist about your condition. Should you decide to go along with the treatment, ask if you can supplement your treatment regimen with massages and breath exercises you can do at home, in order to increase the efficacy of the treatment.

Best.

Q: Is Chiropractic treatment safe?
Has anyone had successful Chiropractic treatment of cervical herniated discs (possible pinched nerve) rotor cuff tear, or carpal tunnel, and if so, was it painful and how long did it take. The neck part scares me, that unless they are using so called “gentle manipulation” the treatment can be very dangerous.

A: Yes, Yes, and Yes…but find a good one. Preferably one that doesn’t need PT equipment and machines. The less skill a chiropractor has, the more machines he needs to compensate.

Gentle and low force adjustments are very well suited for what you describe.

Be wary of the answers from negative know nothing skeptics. Those who say it cannot be done should stay out of the way of those who are doing it.

Q: Carpal tunnel treatments?
Are there non surgical treatments other than splints (which don’t do squat for me)? I’ve heard that chiropractics and accupuncture help…have you hear this?
My symptoms are moderate I guess…I can’t make a fist mostly in the morning, when I do I get that lump on the underside of my wrist. Doing anything with my hands makes my first three fingers go to sleep and they have lost some normal feeling. Worst in right hand as I’m right handed.

A: You haven’t told us how bad your symptoms are: mild, moderate or severe.

CTS is numbness in the first three and one half fingers of the involved hand. Only the thumb-side half of the ring finger is involved, and the little finger is not involved at all, because their sensory innervation of theulnar side of the ring finger and the whole fifth finger arrive through a defferent nerve (the ulnar nerve).

In mild CTS, the numbness is brought on by such activities as holding a telephone for a short period of time using the involved hand. Once the hand is freed up, the numbness quickly disappears.

More severe CTS is associated with increased and prolonged numbness in and reduced ability to use the affected hand.

CTS may be considered to be an occupational disease in those cases or situations where work-related activities produce or aggravate the symptoms.

The usual first treatment of CTS is splinting or immobilization of the involved hand for a few weeks, combined with sharply limited or non-use of the hand; in most cases, this is quite effective. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medications may be prescribed concurrently, but I do not know of any definitive studies showing these medications to be especially effective.

If splinting fails, then the condition can be treated surgically. In the surgical treatment of CTS, the patient is anesthetized, prepped and draped, and a z-plasty incision is made in the base of the hand. The carpal tunnel opened and the median nerve is exposed. In some cases, is is possible to see a that a segment of the median nerve actually has some hourglass-like narrowing or compression by the perineurium (covering) of the median nerve. Once this is done, the perineurium in the involved portion (or if the surgeon cannot see a zone of definite constriction, the perineurium of the segment suspected of being involved) of the median nerve is very gently dissected away. The surgical site is then lavaged, the incision is closed, and the hand is wrapped with layers of protective gauze and padding. The recovery time is generally several weeks.

I would never tell any of my patients not to try chiropractic treatment or acupuncture, since everything possible should be tried before surgery

Q: Wrist pain, anybody else with similar symptoms?
I have had wrist pain for over five years, and I was wondering if anyone else has had similar symptoms and received a diagnosis. The doctors that I have been to say I don’t have a cyst (MRI proved this) and I don’t have carpal tunnel, and heat treatments don’t really work (ice will help a little sometimes), we thought it was related to my back, but chiropractic treatment didn’t really solve the problem.

I have a pop in both wrists and after inactivity my wrists wil bother me until they pop. Also, if I write for long periods of time it will feel like there is a tightness in my wrists that will make it hard to keep writing, and stuff like typing and knitting can aggravate the problem if they already hurt. The knuckles in my fingers will hurt too on bad days, and I can feel the pain radiating up the nerve in my arm. The pain is the worst in my right arm, but my left will hurt too. Also, when it is about to rain, my wrists will ache (along with some other joints). I do have pain in my other joints, but not really bad pain. Sometimes the pain is achey and sometimes it is sharp.

Any ideas? I’m only in my early 20’s so it isn’t age related, though I suppose it could be arthritis.
oh, and wearing a wrist brace makes it worse

A: Have they checked you for any Rheumatoid diseases? That could be another possibility. I was having pain in my joints and a series of blood tests determined what I could have and help to eliminate different diseases I could and could not have.

Q: Is it possible to have cervical radiculopathy from herniated discs and not have neck pain?
I have a torn rotor cuff and carpal tunnel, but the overall pain was never this bad. And now my hand and index finger is tingling, in fact the index finger has gone numb and burns badly. My PCP is offering Chiropractic or Acupuncture as treatment options. BTW, physical therapy was tried repeatedly and only aggravated the conditions.

A: It would be unusual for cervical radiculopathy to not have neck pain. Pressure on a “pinched nerve” will push the nerve against bone and the sensory fibers will protest. There will also, usually, be neck muscle spasms when the pain hits. You haven’t described having any of these symptoms and so I doubt that the pain is originating in the neck.

But there is not enough information to actually try to pinpoint the source of your pain. What I can say, however, is that the numbness in your finger is a worrisome sign – especially if it is persistent. It suggests that permanent nerve damage may be occurring. What I would suggest, since things are not getting better, is to get a referral to a Neurologist. A Neurologist can do nerve conduction studies to find out where the actual site of the nerve injury is.

It may be at the wrist, or Carpal Tunnel. But you say that you tore your rotator cuff and I’m actually more worried that you may also have torn the nerve during that injury. The torn nerve is known as a Brachial Plexus injury and the torn nerve can be anywhere from the shoulder to the neck and trapezius area.

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