Why Do People Call Carpal Tunnel an Injury? It"s Not
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Is NOT an Injury! Stepping on a nail causes real injury.
Getting hit with a bat causes injury.
Your muscles and connective tissue slowly getting tighter and tighter until it hurts and causes other problems is NOT an injury.
It's just too much tightness.
We naturally think that if we hurt we must have an injury.
This is not necessarily the case.
Your body can kick in a huge pain response even when there is no injury, no damage.
This doesn't mean that if you just sit back, the pain will go away.
It likely won't.
For instance, I've been doing a lot of typing the last year.
Lots and lots of typing.
And I've been noticing how my forearms get sore easily as I use them.
And that they've been aching more than they used to.
And they never used to.
This last two weeks, they have started to hurt and feel weak when I do things like brush my teeth, type on my laptop, and when doing massage work.
And as I was answering a Tendonitis pain question online today, I remembered...
"Oh yeah.
This is EXACTLY what I talk about.
" Carpal Tunnel and Tendonitis come on slowly over time, they follow a very particular dynamic and pattern, and it's exactly what I've been feeling.
It's predictable that if I do nothing about it, my forearms will continue to get more sore, more tight, more painful, more 'weak', and I'll eventually start having real pain and limitation.
It's just the way the body works.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not an injury.
Wrist Tendonitis and Tennis Elbow can be an 'injury', but usually aren't.
Pain shows up at a certain point in the Downward Spiral of tightness, constriction, and inflammatory response.
You can have pain and numbness and have nothing wrong with you, except that your muscles and connective tissue have been too tight, for too long.
And that pain is totally reversible.
I'm not worried about my forearms, because I know exactly what to do.
Do you?
Getting hit with a bat causes injury.
Your muscles and connective tissue slowly getting tighter and tighter until it hurts and causes other problems is NOT an injury.
It's just too much tightness.
We naturally think that if we hurt we must have an injury.
This is not necessarily the case.
Your body can kick in a huge pain response even when there is no injury, no damage.
This doesn't mean that if you just sit back, the pain will go away.
It likely won't.
For instance, I've been doing a lot of typing the last year.
Lots and lots of typing.
And I've been noticing how my forearms get sore easily as I use them.
And that they've been aching more than they used to.
And they never used to.
This last two weeks, they have started to hurt and feel weak when I do things like brush my teeth, type on my laptop, and when doing massage work.
And as I was answering a Tendonitis pain question online today, I remembered...
"Oh yeah.
This is EXACTLY what I talk about.
" Carpal Tunnel and Tendonitis come on slowly over time, they follow a very particular dynamic and pattern, and it's exactly what I've been feeling.
It's predictable that if I do nothing about it, my forearms will continue to get more sore, more tight, more painful, more 'weak', and I'll eventually start having real pain and limitation.
It's just the way the body works.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is not an injury.
Wrist Tendonitis and Tennis Elbow can be an 'injury', but usually aren't.
Pain shows up at a certain point in the Downward Spiral of tightness, constriction, and inflammatory response.
You can have pain and numbness and have nothing wrong with you, except that your muscles and connective tissue have been too tight, for too long.
And that pain is totally reversible.
I'm not worried about my forearms, because I know exactly what to do.
Do you?
