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