Wrist Brace: April 2013

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

The 1 and Only hypothesize to Wear a Wrist Splint For Carpal Tunnel

Almost every singular man suffering from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome will be told by their doctor to wear a wrist splint or brace. Splints are an lawful first line of defense against the progression of repetitive strain 'injury' (Rsi).

Ironically, the only thing that wrist splints do is prolong a person's suffering. Splints and braces don't help a Rsi heal. They don't make things better. They don't work hand in hand with Rest to sacrifice the problem.

Here is what the Doctors hope the splint will do:
Help stabilize your wrist buildings so it won't take more damage. Support the buildings so it won't have to work so hard. Protect the wrist buildings for supplementary damage.
Here is what wrist splints unmistakably do:
Stabilize your wrist so it does less work, and gets less circulation. Trick you into mental you're great because you feel less pain. Allow you to work harder and longer before the pain increases again, even though the Pain Causing Dynamic is entrenching itself deeper and deeper into your forearm and wrist.

Wrist splints are a stop gap measure. And an ineffective measure. I hear stories of people wearing their wrist splints for years. This doesn't sound like much of a treatment formula to me. Sounds like using duct tape to keep your broken down car running longer. It doesn't mean it's fixed.

In my pro conception there is only one situation where the use of a wrist splint or wrist brace is acceptable. And that situation is wearing a night splint, or wearing a wrist splint at night while you sleep.

And this is only a good idea for up to two weeks. If you are still in pain and 'needing' a splint after two weeks, you aren't using the right tools to fix your problem.

Night splints are good, temporary tools you can use to support you body to feel better. Because of how the Carpal Tunnel dynamic works, muscles get tighter and tighter and tighter. Even when you sleep at night, your muscles are still being tight and working hard.

This means that people's fingers and wrist(s) curl in to a claw, or a fist, with the wrist bent. This contracts the muscles even more and restricts circulation and other things that make people wake up in the night with increased pain and numbness.

Night Splints keep the wrist and fingers straight, which keeps the muscles lengthened, which helps the body get circulation where it needs to go and helps counter the nervous system's payment to tighten everything up even more.

Wrist Splints and Night Splints have become something people depend on just to barely keep them going. This is a shame, because they have never been told about methods that are unmistakably effective at reversing the Carpal Tunnel Dynamic and getting them pain free again.

There is only one good suspect to wear night splints for Carpal Tunnel sufferers, and that is for holding your wrists and fingers level while you sleep. Even that should only be done for up to two weeks, because you should be back to close to normal by then.