It is in different ways that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome or CTS is addressed nowadays, the treatment of which includes certain special kinds of exercise. The treatment also includes using of splints and surgery as recommended and diagnosed by specialists having great deal of extensive experience in the field. Neurosurgeons as well as orthopaedic surgeons are clinical specialists who in teams can address the CTS condition.
Depending upon the stage of this condition treatment is determined and defined by the practitioner, after careful diagnosis. CTS can be identified after the doctor conducts a physical examination. When the diagnosis is confirmed, determining of a few nerve tests takes place. When the person concerned is examined physically, the source of symptoms is duly located.
In the fingers, an extent of numbness is experienced (which excludes the smallest finger as this finger doesn’t get any sensation at all with the median nerve affected). Strength within the muscles of the hand and sensation within fingers is checked by the physician. The median nerve is pressed, tapped or bent at the wrist by the physician and he or she waits for the patient’s reaction.
A test on the nerve may be recommended to conduct a detailed study to find impulses of the electrical kind which travel down the nerve within the carpal tunnel that could have slowed down. For testing nerve health recommendation for an electro-myogram could be made. Once the condition is defined and eradication of mimic CTS takes place the carpal tunnel treatment begins.
For scrutiny, a comprehensive case study is made after the tests and the doctor offers options for carpal tunnel exercises and surgery of the open or endoscopic kind. Hand surgeons and rheumatologists too are involved in the CTS treatment. Recommendation for treatment is made for pressure and swelling reduction on the median nerve.
Numbness and pain gets relieved with physiotherapy. In the wrist, restoration of normal functioning takes place due to the designed exercises like simple movements of hand and wrist. Anti-inflammatory drugs, splints or braces could be included as part of CTS treatment. In some cases besides surgery, cortisone injections are advised.
Only if physical exercises don’t work are drugs and surgery advised. Symptoms need to be defined well before the treatment is offered and should not end with hyperextend where the median nerve gets pinched.
