carpal tunnel syndrome Blog Posts

Gluten and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

March 16, 2011

I’ve been working with a client with bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome and, while we’ve knocked down quite a bit of her symptoms, some has remained. This has been perplexing me because, she has improved her mechanics significantly. Finally I talked to her about her diet. She is a very healthy eater however I spoke a [

Carpal tunnel syndrome treatment

December 14, 2010

I’ve been working with an electrician who has had carpal tunnel syndrome for approximately 20 years. His fingers were swollen, and the right index finger and thumb were dark, both hands very cold to the touch. Initially I tried dry needling however, strangely, he was hypersensitive to the needling treatment so we discontin

Dry Needling Hurdles

October 21, 2010

My last two posts have been about trying dry needling on a patient with carpal tunnel syndrome and using this modality for bunion correction. I’m disappointed to say I’m running into some hurdles. The first deals with the bunions and is that most people don’t feel comfortable having needles inserted into their

Dry Needling Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

September 30, 2010

I’ve just had my second visit with a patient with 20+ years of carpal tunnel syndrome for which we are trying dry needling (an anatomically based approach to using acupuncture needles). I must say, I’ve run into an issue in which the needles are either meeting with resistance or the patient is hypersensitive to the [