For some reason, when we go on a vacation it’s like my body relaxes and then this evil little monster takes that as an invitation to visit. For me it feels like someone stuck a burning metal thread through my arm and into my palm. It’s really fun. The nice thing is, when it hits me like a ton of bricks in the middle of the night, I get to roll over and scream in Pierce’s face that my arm hurts and then he groggily (and probably begrudgingly, but he loves me) fixes it. For other people it can feel like a numbness or tingling pain, it just depends on what kind of luck you have.

So how, why and what is it exactly?

OK, so there’s a few trains of thought on how it happens. We are chiropractors and we like to think of everything being related to the musculoskeletal system.

You have these things called plexi, which are basically like a whole bunch of entrance ways onto the highways that become your nerves and supply your hands, feet and everything in between. Sometimes in the space between a plexus and a nerve, a muscle or a bone can be applying pressure causing that lovely numbness/burning/tingling. In the case of carpal tunnel it’s typically muscles in your neck, but sometimes your pecs, that are crazy tight. Sometimes we can trace it to the shoulder, elbow and lastly the wrist (you know about those people who get the surgery and it didn’t do anything for them? The problem wasn’t at the wrist.), it just depends on where the tension lies.

We have patients that come to us because they are experiencing this late (and sometimes early on) in their pregnancy. Others it’s because they’ve had a desk job their whole lives (yay computers) or are mechanics who are always using their hands. And every one of them gets the same kind of treatment: soft tissue work to the muscles, exercises to do at home/work and an adjustment to the area that’s causing the problem.

We don’t like to toot our own horn (wait, yeah we do), but we are pretty good at helping people get back to having fun, enjoying their vacations, going back to work pretty quickly. Test us, give us a shot. I bet we can help you too.

Call us at (210) 323-2163.