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CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
What is carpal tunnel? How do yu get it?
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carpal tunnel is when your thumbs, fingers, or wrists have too much applied stress. ways you can get it are from over text messaging, using a BlackBerry too much, etc.
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a condition affecting the hand and wrist. The carpal tunnel is a space in the wrist surrounded by wrist bones and by a rigid ligament that links the bones together.
Through this small tunnel pass the flexing tendons of the fingers and thumb as well as the median nerve. These tendons attach muscles to bones in the hand and transfer the movement of the fingers from muscles to bones. The median nerve carries signals from the brain to control the actions of the fingers and hand. It also carries information about temperature, pain and touch from the hand to the brain, and controls the sweating of the hand.
In the carpal tunnel, the tendons of the fingers surround the median nerve. Swelling of the tendons reduces the space in the tunnel and squeezes the median nerve which is softer than the tendons. Pressure on this nerve can injure it.
Such injury results in sensations of numbness, tingling, pain, and clumsiness of the hand. This combination of symptoms is called carpal tunnel syndrome. People with carpal tunnel syndrome experience difficulty in performing tasks such as unscrewing bottle tops, fastening buttons, or turning keys.
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I have carpal tunnel... its stiffness in your joints and wrists... you can get it from typing or writing too much...
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hey, i googled carpal tunnel syndrome and i found a link that might be of help to you.
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It has to do with your shoulders and wrist and can vary from person to person. like when my dad got it all of the bones in his wrist like collapes and he needed surgery.
I believe it can run it the family but you can also get it naturally. It is a syndrome so its something that happens and really isn't preventable for the most part
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