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Carpel Tunnel

Symptoms

Numbness in the hand can vary from severe constant numbness and tingling to occasional numbness and tingling during daily activities.

Pain in the wrist and forearm is a symptom that should not be ignored. This can be developing carpel tunnel syndrome.

Sleep interrupted by pain is a sign that treatment is necessary now.

Pain radiating down the arm can start in the neck, chest, shoulder, upper arm, or elbow. It can be sharp, somewhat stabbing, or mild.

Finger numbness can include the thumb and all four fingers or different combinations. Numbness is caused by compression or entrapment of the nerve leading to the affected part.

Weakness/Clumsiness of the hand resulting in problems grasping becomes apparent when a person is unable to open ajar, or pick up a water bottle, or give a firm handshake, or turn a doorknob.

Hardness of the hands is often a result of nerve entrapment in the arm or carpel tunnel. When a clients hands feel like cement there is usually a significant amount of atrophy in the hands and forearms with extensive adhesions between and within the muscle tissue.

Ken is a Registered Nurse BSN and a Certified Massage Therapist. He attended Saginaw Valley State University for his Nursing degree and The Flint School of Therapeutic Massage for his Massage Certification. He works full time as a Registered Nurse and works part time as a massage therapist. He schedules appointments in the evening and on his days off.

Modalities include Swedish, Polarity, Sports Massage, Trigger Point Therapy, Neuromuscular Therapy, Positional Release, Myofascial Release, Infant and pregnancy.

When you come to the Therapeutic Touch a session is designed specifically for you. If you have never had a massage before we will talk and all your questions will be answered before the treatment begins. A thourough intake is completed prior to the treatment.

Everyone can benefit from a massage.

Massage can:

• Provide anything from soothing relaxation to deeper therapy for specific physical problems.
• Relieve symptoms of stress and anxiety.
• Increase the nourishing blood supply to your tissues.
• Improve energy and alertness.
• Aid your recovery from pulled muscles or sprained ligaments.
• Ease many of the uncomfortable stresses of childbearing, including edema, backaches and exhaustion.
• Relief certain repetitive motion injuries related to on the job activities.
• Greatly reduce pain from muscle spasms, contractures and increase flexibility.

Kens' clients include these problems Fibromyalgia, Chronic Myofascial Pain, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Sciatica, Spondylosis, Khyposis, Lordosis, Scoliosis, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Frozen Shoulder and many more.

 'Consumer Reports Finds Hands-On Therapies Among Top-Rated Treatments For Back Pain'
According to a new survey by the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, fifty-eight percent of people suffering from back pain rated chiropractic/spinal manipulation as helping a lot. And massage (48 percent) and physical therapy (46 percent) were close runners up. Consumers also rated their satisfaction with practitioners, telling Consumer Reports they were more likely to be 'highly satisfied' with the back pain treatment received from their chiropractors (59 percent) than from their primary-care physicians (34 percent).
— Chatham Journal Newspaper, Yonkers, New York, April 14, 2009

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