Therapy Found Effective for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway in your wrist through which your median nerve and some tendons of hand pass through. If because of any reason there is a pressure on your nerve, you could start feeling numbness, tingling, pain and weakness in your hand and forearm.

Physiotherapy helps in Carpal tunnel syndrome by:

• Education on avoiding things that aggravate or doesn’t allow your wrist to recover
• Education on proper wrist brace
• Massage and joint mobilization
• Use of Heat/ Cold
• Use of physiotherapy modalities like Ultrasound, TENS