subject: Acupuncture For Carpal Tunnel [print this page] Most carpal tunnel patients live with carpal tunnel long before seeking help and being diagnosed. Carpal tunnel is disease that gets progressively worse, so leaving it unattended will not only increase the pain but cause further damage to the hand and wrist. Carpal tunnel patients generally do not seek help for the syndrome because most are afraid of having carpal tunnel hand surgery Los Angeles hand surgeons assure carpal tunnel patients that there is nothing to fear.
Carpal tunnel hand syndrome Los Angeles doctors say is very common among 50-70 year old people. Although carpal tunnel hand surgery might be intimidating to some success rates are very high.
Carpal tunnel will greatly relieve pain and pressure off the nerve. Carpal tunnel surgery is successful in 95% of cases but should only done as last result. Carpal tunnel surgery is done only several months after not finding cures in other remedies. With carpal tunnel there are two type of incisions choices endoscopic surgery or with an incision. In surgery in order to release the pressure of the median never the doctor will cut the carpal ligament and eventually scar tissue will cover the gap. Although carpal tunnel hand surgery could possibly eliminate the hand and wrist pain there are other methods to eliminating or subduing the pain.
A leading hand Surgeon Los Angeles suggests carpal tunnel patients try acupuncture before pursuing surgery or in case surgery fails. Acupuncture is al old method of Chinese medicine where thin needles are inserted into specific points on the body. These needles are said to release natural pain relieving chemicals in to the body promote circulation and balance the nervous system.
The amount of acupuncture treatments needed depend on the overall bodily health of the patient, the area of pain and the level of pain.
Recently a test was done to measure the success of acupuncture on carpal tunnel patients. The study was a success over half of the patients had no sign of pain at all. The other half of patients had a significant pain reduction. Some patients has already had previous carpal tunnel hand surgery and other wrist surgery Los Angeles doctors had not been successful in eliminating all pressure off the nerve and the patient still felt pain. These two patients that had already had surgery had found success in acupuncture one of the patients no longer feels pain in the arm while the other patient noticed a decrease but still occasionally felt pain.
