| With the birth of technology and the rise in popularity | | | | the messaging headquarters of impulses for the |
| of the cellular phones as a mode of communicating | | | | fingers. This is why when the median nerve is |
| with people, we have become addicted with using | | | | compressed or affected in some way, the fingers |
| the short messaging system. Text messaging via | | | | may find it hard to move. Pain occurs when tendons |
| cellphone is also another way of communicating these | | | | in the carpal tunnel swell, making the already cramped |
| days. Because of these new avenues of | | | | space in the tunnel all the tighter. This compresses |
| communication, people make use of keypads all the | | | | the median nerve, resulting in the numbness of the |
| time. And though this is an instant and fast way, not | | | | area and weakness of the surrounding muscles. |
| to mention cheap way, to stay in touch with people, | | | | There is currently no one specific reason for the |
| it also has its disadvantages. One of them is putting | | | | occurrence of carpal tunnel syndrome. Often, it is the |
| strain in the hands, particularly in the fingers. When | | | | combination of a lot of factors that affect the |
| you type, you are exerting much effort with your | | | | median nerve and the tendons. Experts suspect that |
| fingertips. You are pressing letters in order to | | | | it is mainly due to congenital predisposition rather |
| compose messages. And though it is not exactly | | | | than anything that is developed from the |
| dangerous, it can be exhausting for the fingers if | | | | environment. There are just some people who have |
| done all the time. One of the problems that may | | | | smaller carpal tunnels than other people, thus |
| occur due to the repetitive typing is carpal tunnel | | | | predisposing them to the problem. Still, there are also |
| syndrome. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a progressive | | | | some factors in the environment that may contribute |
| condition that is characterized by pain in the wrist, | | | | to the exacerbation of the problem. People who |
| fingers and sometimes even the whole arm. It is one | | | | have suffered some trauma or injury at the wrist |
| of the most common forms of what scientists and | | | | may cause swelling which in turn may affect the |
| doctors call the entrapment neuropathies, which | | | | median nerve. The same goes with sprains and |
| involves the compression or traumatization of the | | | | fractures. Over-activity of the pituitary glands, |
| peripheral nerves. Carpal tunnel, to those who are not | | | | hypothyroidism and rheumatoid arthritis may also be |
| familiar with the term, is that part of the wrist at the | | | | factors that can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Work |
| base of the palm. It is a narrow passageway | | | | stress especially with the repeated use vibrating hand |
| composed of ligaments and bones that houses and | | | | tools and mechanical problems in the joints are also |
| protects the tendons in the hands and the nerve | | | | factors. Women who retain fluids in their bodies |
| fibers. This is where we can find the median nerve, | | | | during pregnancy or during menses also suffer from |
| which runs from the wrist to the forearms. This is | | | | the condition. In some cases, doctors cannot even |
| the nerve cell that controls the sensations in the area | | | | pinpoint an exact cause for the problem. |
| of the palm, including the fingers. This also acts as | | | | |