Women More Vulnerable CTS

Women were more susceptible to carpal tunnel syndrome. This is due to the shape of the wrist women less than men. By default, the tunnel is in the joints is also smaller, so the more quickly narrowed. But if we reflect on often the case today in which the use of gadgets too long, it seems men and women have the same risk of CTS.

Originally tingling

Of the 10 patients who did medical check-up, there were six of them are suffering from the early stages of CTS, At this early stage of the common symptoms of CTS is usually a sensory disturbances such as heat, tingling, numbness, numbness arising in the area of ​​the thumb, index finger, the finger middle, and ring fingers. Sometimes also emerged amid the pain in the palm around the thumb.

The pain usually gets worse at night. There is another one that many people do not understand, that is loss of sensation in certain parts, which usually hurt when pinched, reduced pain, it also symptoms of CTS.

The pain gets worse when bending the wrist activity or lifting weights that are too heavy.

If not immediately get attention, pain and tingling was going to turn out to be more severe, the patient may experience a decrease in the ability of motor disorders such as gripping, thumb weakened, the other fingers swell. Hand is also difficult to distinguish the taste of hot and cold. So how to cope  with these risks??? can be a way of risk factor modification

By way of modification of these risk factors can minimize the risk of disease CTS, it can indeed happen when we too often play the gadget in a long time, because our bodies do not engage in activities that have been created for static and repeated in a long time. If enforced, the body will issue an alarm, a sign of the body needs a break, the CTS is also a sign that the hand can not stand for long with one activity alone.

There is no specific drug to treat inflammation caused by CTS, for it is not the type of metabolic disease that requires special treatment for healing, he kind of anatomic cure diseases only requires awareness.

A simple way to reduce the pain of CTS is to rest every 20 minutes in the use of gadgets. Alternatively it could also change - the movement. or it could be helped with yoga.

Examination can be done by using a nerve conductive studies and electromyography are typically directly performed by a neurologist. For the early stages in the emergence of pain may provide analgesic or anti-inflammatory.

But when it lasts longer this CTS disease eg 1-2 years, which is already grappling interfere with blood flow to the hands, the muscles due to lack of food become smaller. If it is so, may well need to do an operation to free the wedged tunnel earlier,. although only a small operation.

Postoperative patient can not immediately recover. The muscles are already shrinking requires considerable time to exercise in order to swell again.

Therefore, restrictions pengguanaan gadgets, at least give pause if prosecuted many uses, so pay attention to do from now on