If you are reading these lines, it would be natural to assume that you spend at least a few hours a day at your computer.
And if most of this time you have to type or manipulate the mouse – most likely you are familiar with pain in the hands, fingers and wrists.
From the doctor’s office, if unpleasant sensations still bring you to the clinic, you will most likely leave with a new diagnosis of “tunnel syndrome” (aka carpal tunnel syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome, carpal tunnel syndrome).
How Tunnel Syndrome Develops and How We Feel
It is caused by compression of a nerve in the hand (median nerve), which travels in special channels formed by bones and ligaments. Naturally, when a nerve is compressed, we feel pain, which can be felt in the joint of the hand, but not only in it.
First, there is a slight dull pain, numbness or discomfort in the joint of the hand after several hours of work. If you interrupt work and just stretch your hands, the pain disappears for half an hour – an hour. The unchanging position of the hand, coupled with intense work, leads to stagnation of blood, which at this stage only causes unpleasant sensations.
Exercises to Prevent Tunnel Syndrome
These exercises can / should be done every few hours, and each of them should be repeated many times, a dozen or two.
Show that you will be okay, and squeeze your fingers tighter – you should feel resistance. From the index finger, go to the middle, ring and misian.
Pressing your palms together, spread your elbows to the sides, taking a position like a prayer. The forearms in this position are parallel to the floor. Then, try to lower your palms as low as possible without opening them and leaving your elbows still high. It is likely that pain will be felt in the hands, in the palms, or even in the phalanges of the fingers, if the disease under discussion has already reached you. It is important not to put your hands away from you.
Straightening your arms above your head, rest your palm on the palm, or interlace your fingers together and rotate with your hands
Squeeze your fingers into a fist and unclench (also with force). Then make a fist and twist in different directions.
If you have a special soft ball (these are often given out as free gifts at various gatherings and presentations) for your hands, squeeze it in turn with all your fingers, palm and between your hands.
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