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Hand and wrist pain is more common than you think. It can be blamed on overuse, arthritis, or even nerve impingement. Pain can be mild or debilitating, making it impossible to type or participate in your favorite hobbies.
Understanding the cause of your hand or wrist pain is the first step to finding lasting relief. Most traditional treatments fail to address the root cause, and these pains can quickly become severe and chronic.
One of the most common causes of neck pain is repetitive stress of the neck muscles, tendons, and ligaments within these structures. Individuals who spend most of their day sitting at work, or doing sedentary activities, have a high-risk factor for developing this condition. The risk for developing neck pain is highest for those who sit in poor posture, with the head in a flexed forward position.
Several other causes of neck pain are also posture related, such as herniated discs, whiplash injuries, and Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones). Poor posture puts your cervical spine, disks, and muscles in the neck at risk of injury and damage.
Remedies for hand pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief. Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause of pain, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic hand pain.
Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time.
Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.
General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.
Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.
Remedies for neck pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief. Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic neck pain.
Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time.
General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.
Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.
Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.
The root cause of hand or wrist pain is usually an imbalance, muscle weakness, or crookedness further up the arm or shoulder, or even into the neck, mid and upper back. Muscle tightness, tendonitis, or repetitive stress that you think is causing the pain in your hand(s) is only part of the problem that needs to be addressed. When you have pain, it’s important to look for deeper issues or imbalances elsewhere in the body.
If the natural sitting or standing alignment of the shoulders, spine, hips, knees, and feet are not balanced and level, one shoulder blade can be winged and pulled forward causing the arm to be held in an internal position. This puts extra stress on the hand, wrist, and the surrounding muscles and tendons. The pain area is oftentime not the problem area you need to address in order to become pain-free.
For treatment of hand pain to be truly effective, it must focus on correcting posture and straightening the joints from head to toe. Posture Therapy is the only method that provides whole-body posture correction and pain relief.
Find someone certified in posture therapy, or try the PTX Theraapy App. It is the first personal Posture Therapy app with a posture analyzer that can review your posture, consider your personal pains, history, and movement ability, and create a customized program from millions of possibilities. You’ll learn about your posture, then get a unique-to-you program so you can go from crooked to straight, from pain-ful to pain-free.
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