Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Stretching & Flexibility
For this second blog in our series on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome I will focus on prevention and self-care. Our original blog on this topic, which offered an alternative perspective on CTS, spoke about hand positioning and biomechanics as primary causes of CTS...
Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Posture, Biomechanics, Gait & Mobility
A natural follow up to our recent discussion of thumb arthritis and thumb pain is a presentation of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). Thumb arthritis is closely related to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as they both involve the same misalignment in hand positioning detailed in...
Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Posture, Biomechanics, Gait & Mobility, Stretching & Flexibility
In this blog I will present the case study of a woman who came to the clinic with some pretty serious issues, including severe pain in her neck, shoulders and thumbs, chronic headaches and insomnia. As this is a complicated case, with various factors at play and...
Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Medical Errors & Misdiagnosis
My son Avery jammed his thumb when he was about 2 years old. I’m embarrassed to admit that it took a while for my wife, Nicole, and I to notice, and then we wondered if he was actually born with a crooked thumb – (photos attest to the fact that he did once have a...
Fingers, Thumb, Hand & Wrist, Medical Errors & Misdiagnosis
The Mayo Clinic states on their webpage for Osteoarthritis that this condition “gradually worsens with time, and no cure exists”. In their lexicon osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease, which results from the breakdown of the cartilage, which only increases over...
