Carpal tunnel syndrome is very common with people who do office work or use computers or who do pressure on the wrist. Patients should be diagnosed and treated to help prevent disease progression, improve quality of life.
Carpal tunnel syndrome has classic symptoms, which include numbness and tingling in the thumb, index finger, middle finger, and half of the ring finger. Some people have pain in the wrists and palms, especially at night. Pain and numbness sometimes spread to the forearm, making it difficult to hold. Patients often have to shake their hands to reduce discomfort.
The reason is that the office worker holds the computer mouse, or presses the wrist on the table surface, which compresses the middle nerve causing injury, due to ligament fibrosis or degeneration. In addition, there are many other causes of disease, including common work of wrist movement, vibration tremor caused by hand tools, hernia, synovial hernia, inflammation - fibrosis of neck ligaments. hand,…. This syndrome is also common in diabetic polyneuropathy, chronic alcohol intoxication.
Dr. Vo Van Si, PhD of Orthopedics & Spine Surgery advices: to prevent patients who often have to work with computers to pay attention, to avoid pressing the carpal tunnel at the table, rotate the necks every 60 minutes Hand in circles for 1-2 minutes from left to right then from right to left. Clench your hands and spread them out for a minute. Cross the fingers of your hands together and fold gently. Do not hold the computer mouse or type continuously for many hours.
Carpal tunnel syndrome has classic symptoms, which include numbness and tingling in the thumb, index finger, middle finger, and half of the ring finger.
Treating carpal tunnel syndrome
For mild cases of carpal tunnel syndrome, resting your hand and wearing a splint at night might be all it takes to relieve symptoms. Symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome often occur at night, causing people to wake up and shake or move their hand around until the numbness resolves and it feels better, says Dr. Vo Van Si. Medications, such as aspirin and ibuprofen aren't a cure, but can help relieve pain. Your doctor may also want to try giving you steroid injections to help relieve symptoms.
If these carpal tunnel treatments aren't effective, however, it may be time to consider surgery to release the ligament that is placing pressure on the median nerve.
When to get surgery
"The mistake that people often make is waiting too long to get surgery," says Dr. Vo Van Si. "I see a lot of people who say that their numbness was gradually worsening and now their hand is completely numb and has been for a year." If the nerve is compressed long enough, the muscle atrophies and the nerve damage becomes permanent, he says.
So, if your carpal tunnel symptoms aren't responding to other treatments, take action quickly.
The surgery takes 10 minutes under a local anesthetic. Unless you do a job that involves manual labor, you can typically go right back to normal activities, says Dr. Vo Van Si.
"I tell my patients all the time that a carpal tunnel release done at the right time for the correct diagnosis is very successful," he says.
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