Carpal Tunnel Relief
Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2023 8:30 am
I'm sure there are others in the Fly Family who have carpal tunnel besides me. Having trouble feeling what string your plucking or what fret you're on? Well, that was me for a long time. In desperation, before surgery, I experimented and came up with a technique that works. Just for a preface here, I had a very painful nerve test some time ago for this. There are three stages of carpal tunnel: mild, moderate, and severe and four degrees of each. I was in the severe stage second degree and moving into the third. The fourth degree is having almost no feeling and function. What I am going to explain to you is what I also approached the head of surgery with at the local VA Hospital in Long Beach, Ca. Consequentially, plastic surgery contacted me and I went and did a video taped presentation of this. They are starting to implement this technique.
Here is the technique.
You will need to have a ball. This ball can roughly be the size of a tennis ball down to a handball. Neither one of these balls worked for me because they would slide sideways due to their finish surface. Get a ball that is very stiff but does have a little give to it. Also, the surface needs to be a "toothie" type of surface which does not slip sideways when under pressure while contacting a smooth solid surface. I have two that are excellent and I think these were from a kids paddleball game.
I use my kitchen counter top for this because it is taller but you can use a desktop or any substantial table. Place the ball on the chosen surface. Place your wrist down on top of this ball exactly where your wrist joint is. An inch or and inch and a quarter each way from your wrist joint will be the area of your contact with the ball. Now, apply some pretty stiff pressure down on the ball and start rolling the ball back and forth and around and around in these areas on each side of your wrist. Don't be a sissy about this. Nothing will break. Apply good stiff pressure while rolling in all directions for one minute with each wrist. Do this once or twice a day. That's all it takes if you dig into it. What you are doing is reestablishing the elastic qualities of everything below the surface. In other words, you are expanding and reconditioning your cells and the nerve/bloodflow connection. The bloodflow in your nerve sheathes and the bloodflow traveling into your hands will start to increase because you are now making your body more flexible; the way it used to be. That night or the next morning, you should feel your carpal tunnel is a little bit less. Each day, if you are applying yourself correctly, the carpal tunnel will greatly diminish. In about a week and a half, my carpal tunnel had gone down dramatically and about a week later it was just a very slight tingle at the ends of my fingers. The only thing that might bring it back somewhat is if you do strong physical workouts like I do which tend to build hand muscles up. Even though that happens a little bit, I can play just fine.
The result for me was that I almost completely eliminated my entire carpal tunnel except for a very slight tingling at just the tips of my fingers. I can now feel my frets and picking hand fingers in almost a brand new condition.
I will check back on this post in a few days to see if any questions come up.
Here is the technique.
You will need to have a ball. This ball can roughly be the size of a tennis ball down to a handball. Neither one of these balls worked for me because they would slide sideways due to their finish surface. Get a ball that is very stiff but does have a little give to it. Also, the surface needs to be a "toothie" type of surface which does not slip sideways when under pressure while contacting a smooth solid surface. I have two that are excellent and I think these were from a kids paddleball game.
I use my kitchen counter top for this because it is taller but you can use a desktop or any substantial table. Place the ball on the chosen surface. Place your wrist down on top of this ball exactly where your wrist joint is. An inch or and inch and a quarter each way from your wrist joint will be the area of your contact with the ball. Now, apply some pretty stiff pressure down on the ball and start rolling the ball back and forth and around and around in these areas on each side of your wrist. Don't be a sissy about this. Nothing will break. Apply good stiff pressure while rolling in all directions for one minute with each wrist. Do this once or twice a day. That's all it takes if you dig into it. What you are doing is reestablishing the elastic qualities of everything below the surface. In other words, you are expanding and reconditioning your cells and the nerve/bloodflow connection. The bloodflow in your nerve sheathes and the bloodflow traveling into your hands will start to increase because you are now making your body more flexible; the way it used to be. That night or the next morning, you should feel your carpal tunnel is a little bit less. Each day, if you are applying yourself correctly, the carpal tunnel will greatly diminish. In about a week and a half, my carpal tunnel had gone down dramatically and about a week later it was just a very slight tingle at the ends of my fingers. The only thing that might bring it back somewhat is if you do strong physical workouts like I do which tend to build hand muscles up. Even though that happens a little bit, I can play just fine.
The result for me was that I almost completely eliminated my entire carpal tunnel except for a very slight tingling at just the tips of my fingers. I can now feel my frets and picking hand fingers in almost a brand new condition.
I will check back on this post in a few days to see if any questions come up.
