Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) occurs when a nerve gets trapped in your wrist, producing pain, numbness, tingling or pins & needles in your wrist and hand (normally thumb, index and middle fingers). At Northwood Chiropractic Oxford, we understand how this condition can impact your daily life, causing difficulty using the hand with the pain often worsening at night. While it typically affects one side, it can occasionally occur in both wrists. If you have this issue and it isn't improving, we can help identify and address the root cause.
The trapped nerve in the wrist usually results from increased pressure, which can occur for many different reasons. Using our precise analysis, we often find that CTS stems from dysfunction not only in your wrist but also in your elbow, shoulder and neck. Your wrist doesn't work alone but in concert with the parts attached to it. Therefore, an issue in your wrist may not be directly caused by your wrist only but by the neighboring structures too or instead of.
As well as the wrist, elbow, and shoulder mechanically contributing to CTS, interference with the nerve supply to the wrist plays a significant role. The nerves that innervate the wrist originate from the lower part of your neck. Pressure on these nerves can disrupt the communication to the wrist, leading to dysfunction. Over time, this can cause pain not only in the nerve itself but also in the surrounding structures of the wrist. At Northwood Chiropractic, we use a five-step analysis to accurately identify whether this is the underlying issue.
t Northwood Chiropractic Oxford, we focus strongly on addressing the root cause of CTS to achieve not only great results but, importantly, long-lasting ones. This is why we take a holistic approach to CTS, as we’ve found it helps people get back to what they love more quickly—and stay there longer
