Carpal_Tunnel_Syndrome : Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
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The nerves that run through your wrist into your fingers get trapped by the inflamed muscles around them. Symptoms include feeling "pins and needles", tingling, numbness, and even loss of sensation. CTS is often confused for a diffuse condition.
Typing posture, ergonomics, prevention, treatment The most important element of both prevention and recovery is to reduce tension in the muscles and tendons. This requires learning how to relax (at least some level) . If you're under a load of stress, this is doubly important. Tune out the world and breath deep and regular. Relaxing should become a guiding principle in your work: every three minutes take a three second break.
Posture - some basic guidelines
- Let your shoulders relax.
- Let your elbows swing free.
- Keep your wrists straight.
- Pull your chin in to look down - don't flop your head forward.
- Keep the hollow in the base of your spine.
- Try leaning back in the chair.
- Don't slouch or slump forward.
- Alter your posture from time to time.
- Every 20 minutes, get up and bend your spine backward.
For some people, wrist supports seem to work wonders. If you drop your arms at your side and then lift your hands up at the elbow, you want your keyboard under your hands when your elbows are at about 90 degrees.
Of course, you want to avoid pronation, wrist extension, and ulnar deviation at all costs. Wrist pads may help at this. You should get somebody else to come and look at how you work: how you sit, how you type, and how you relax.
First, and foremost of importance: if you experience pain at all, then you absolutely need to go see a doctor. As soon as you possibly can. The difference of a day or two can mean the difference between a short recovery and a long, drawn-out ordeal. GO SEE A DOCTOR. Now, your garden-variety doctor may not necessarily be familiar with this sort of injury. Generally, any hospital with an occupational therapy clinic will offer specialists in these kinds of problems.
Authored by Dr. Arthur Agatston, a cardiologist at Mt. Sinai Medical Center, the South Beach Diet is a healthier version of decreased carbohydrate diets like the Atkins Diet and The Zone. It was created for the purpose of lowering cholesterol for heart patients and those with diabetes. The diet regimen focuses on the consumption of complex carbohydrates such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and lean fats and proteins. It eliminates simple carbohydrates almost entirely (sweets, pasta, most bread, etc.) and aggressively restricts carbohydrate consumption during the weight loss phase of the diet, similar to Atkins.
Such a diet is simply going to lower caloric intake for those who follow it, hence weight loss. The book does focus on decreased carbohydrate consumption in a healthier manner, but the book falls into the trap of marketing itself in a similar manner as all fad diets: they clearly know what appeals to desperate, overweight people and they use the common buzzwords in this business such as, "lose weight fast", "13 Pounds in 2 weeks", "cravings were gone", "never unsatisfied." Overly optimistic claims are certainly dubious when lasting weight loss is difficult, as we all know.
If you are a diabetic or a cardiac patient you have little choice but to accept the long-term change. If one is overweight and unhealthy without life-threatening health problems, summoning the power to change your lifestyle in the long-term is more difficult. Any diet will be effective if you can stick to it, but that's the cruel catch-22 of nearly every diet.
Certainly any diet whose focus is lowering bad cholesterol and at the same time helping you to lose weight, will greatly benefit your health. If you can stick to the South Beach Diet, it is a decent choice, but that's the problem with any weight loss plan. Book-based programs suffer from a lack of active support structure and easy access to informational resources pertaining to nutrition, exercise, and motivation. The good news is that like basic nutrition and exercise will almost always decrease your cholesterol levels.
There is no miracle in the South Beach Diet, only a market-savy manner of packaging and selling some common sense advice.
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