| People who do repetitive tasks - housewives, | | | | found that a large number of those suffering from |
| secretaries, meat cutters, assembly line workers, | | | | carpal tunnel syndrome also had arthritis in the neck |
| carpenters, musicians, computer users and others - | | | | area.As a Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist, I |
| may be more likely to develop carpal tunnel | | | | take a different approach to the treatment and |
| syndrome. Fractures, falls on the hand, and poorly | | | | prevention of carpal tunnel syndrome. After a |
| designed vibrating hand tools may also damage the | | | | thorough neurological examination, I determine which |
| palm of the hand and cause carpal tunnel syndrome. | | | | part of the nervous system is not functioning |
| Other causes are rheumatoid arthritis or | | | | properly.The right brain controls the left side of the |
| osteoarthritis, Paget's bone disease, multiple | | | | body, and the left brain controls the right side of the |
| myeloma, acromegaly and gout.Your carpal (wrist) | | | | body. If a patient is experiencing pain on one side of |
| bones form a tunnel-like structure - the carpal tunnel | | | | the body (right or left), the opposite brain may be |
| - through which pass nine tendons and one nerve - | | | | firing at an abnormally high rate. In order for a patient |
| the medical nerve. Carpal tunnel syndrome (also called | | | | to perceive pain, an area of the brain must fire at a |
| occupational neuritis, partial thenar atrophy and | | | | higher frequency. If the pain is bilateral (on both |
| median neuritis) occurs when the median nerve is | | | | sides), there may be different central structures |
| irritated. Carpal tunnel syndrome is so common that it | | | | involved, such as the brain stem or cerebellum.Dr. |
| has been called the "occupational disease of the | | | | Michael L. Johnson is a Board Certified Chiropractic |
| 1990s."The relationship between spinal health and | | | | Neurologist, one of only 700 in the country, with over |
| carpal tunnel has been documented by a number of | | | | twenty years of experience in private practice. He |
| individuals who found spinal nerve root irritation in | | | | has completed over 850 hours of neurological studies |
| patients who had carpal tunnel or ulnar neuropathy. | | | | and 3800 hours of postgraduate education. His book |
| Others have found that nerve compression in the | | | | "What Do You Do When the Medications Don't |
| neck can block the flow of nutrients to the nerves in | | | | Work? - A Non-Drug Treatment of Dizziness, Migraine |
| the wrist, making the wrist more susceptible to | | | | Headaches, Fibromyalgia, and Other Chronic |
| injury. This problem is called the "double crush | | | | Conditions" outlines his groundbreaking work in the |
| syndrome." Not surprisingly, when 1,000 cases of | | | | treatment of chronic pain and is a national best-seller. |
| carpal tunnel syndrome were investigated, it was | | | | It is available wherever books are sold. |