Frequently Asked Questions

Soft tissue injuries, like sprains and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome require six weeks to heal in most cases. The Carpal Solution Treatment has been carefully developed by leading Doctors and Medical Device designers using the most advanced materials and expert medical knowledge to achieve the optimum natural stretching system for healing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Doctors developed the Six Week Treatment Protocol through painstaking work with individual patients. It turns out most people only need six weeks of gentle stretching at night to put their Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Symptoms in complete remission. Once it is in remission it usually stays in remission for 2 to 7 years.

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People often wonder, “Why do I have Carpal Tunnel?” There are over 15 different factors that can contribute to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Usually people suffering from Carpal Tunnel Symptoms experience multiple contributing factors at once that combine to cause the intense hand pain, hand numbness and hand dysfunction. So, Why do I have Carpal Tunnel is not always a simple answer.

These contributing factors can be subtle in the beginning and range from slight inflammation of soft tissue around the Carpal Tunnel due to repetitive stress injuries associated with hand and wrist use patterns, edema from forceful trauma of any type, a person’s specific anatomical configuration, to metabolic factors.

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Repetitive stress activities bring on Carpal Tunnel Strain which can lead to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome in people predisposed genetically for the Syndrome. Any activity that requires vigorous repeated hand use will often lead to Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Below is a list of common occupations and activities that have been identified with a high incidence of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Most people associate the onset of Carpal Tunnel with the long-term use of computers for hours each day, however while many people who work on computers have a high incidence of Carpal Tunnel, hundreds of other professions also have a high rate of encountering the Carpal Tunnel Condition.

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There is evidence that there may indeed be some genetic factors involved in developing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. In fact, at the 2007 74th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons in San Diego, study researcher David Ring, MD, an assistant professor of orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, announced that “”The major risk factor for carpal tunnel is genetic.”

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So, in the case of Carpal Tunnel Surgery, is it a permanent fix, or will Carpal Tunnel Come back even after a successful surgical procedure? It is a simple question with a complicated answer.

However, we can state that for most people (over 90%) Carpal Tunnel Syndrome will reoccur in patients even after a successful surgical procedure.

According to patients only 50 -60% of Carpal Tunnel Surgeries are deemed successful.

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We might be a little biased, but we believe the best carpal tunnel treatment is the carpal solution.

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Early detection and treatment of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is important to checking the progression of this debilitating syndrome, and yet some of the early symptoms are subtle and can be easily mistaken for other issues.

The first symptom people usually notice is that their hand and fingers become numb and tingling while they are sleeping causing them to wake up frequently during the night. Most people do not even realize that this is a symptom of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and attribute the numb feeling to sleeping on their hands in an awkward position, cutting off blood circulation.

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One of the first signals people have that they are getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is that they start dropping things accidentally on a regular basis. This can get very frustrating to people as they break important items like smart phones or spill coffee on equipment or co-workers.

Most people do not realize that this is an early symptom of Carpal Tunnel and that it can be treated proactively in the convenience of home during sleep.

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It is common for people suffering from early symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Strain not to realize the cause of their hand pain and numbness. Early diagnosis allows early treatment and prevention of Chronic Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome symptoms are most pronounced at night. Sufferers often wake up at night with numb hands thinking that they are sleeping in a position that restricts circulation causing their hands to “go to sleep” or feel numb. If you are experiencing regular sleep disruption due to your hands and fingers or thumb feeling numb at night, you probably are in the early stages of Carpal Tunnel Strain. In the case of Carpal Tunnel Strain, early detection and preventive action is important to check the progression of the syndrome.

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The simple answer is Yes, Chronic Cold Hands are a common symptom of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. But this question deserves a longer explanation. Like many symptoms people are often taken by surprise with the symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Some of the most surprising symptoms are pain in the shoulder or pain in the forearm or even pain in the neck joints that occur as a result of the Median Nerve being pinched in the Carpal Tunnel.

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Often, hand injury and the resulting hand pain can be one of the first signals of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. This is due to the swelling of the injured and damaged soft tissue in and around the Carpal Tunnel of the Hand. Soft tissue is made up of cartilage, fascia tissue, ligaments, tendons, tendon sheaths in which the tendons slide to prevent damage to surrounding tissue and muscles.

The swelling of the injured tissue puts external pressure on blood vessels and nerves in the relatively tight space in and around the Carpal Tunnel at the base of the hand.

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Since the condition is reoccurring, it is important to find a therapeutic approach that is has a high success rate with minimal risks, minimal time commitment and can be applied when needed at a reasonable cost. There are a host of options that are being promoted in the medical community and online. We will review most of them here in order of which best fits the above criteria or is most commonly encountered and explain why. One thing to keep in mind is that people have widely varying responses to the various treatment options, so it is important to keep the range of possibilities and time frames in mind when reviewing these treatments.

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Many sufferers find it difficult to take ten to fifteen minutes segments out of their busy lives five times a day for Carpal Tunnel stretching and exercise in the disciplined way required to prevent carpal tunnel symptoms. Stretching is actually more beneficial with CTS than hand and wrist exercises. In fact exercising injured, inflamed tissue can actually do more damage than good. Also, some people find that their syndrome has already progressed to the point where doing intensive exercises or manual stretching several times a day, can be too painful and frustrating, even though it may likely be helpful.

Carpal Solution Therapy offers CTS sufferers a better way to achieve natural stretching exercise needed without the downtime and without the pain. You can learn more by clicking on the arrow on the picture below this will show a YouTube video on Carpal Tunnel Stretching Using the comfortable Carpal Solution taping system.

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Great question Samantha! Since Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is reoccurring no matter how you treat it, it can be useful to do Maintenance Treatment or Preventative Treatment. There is no permanent cure for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. It comes back even after a successful Carpal Tunnel Surgery for 85% of people within 6 months to 8 years. Even if you go for 15 years without Carpal Tunnel Symptoms it can still come back.

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Though there are many false claims about cures for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a “Syndrome” not a disease, so there is no “Carpal Tunnel Cure” per se.

However, The Carpal Solution Therapy is the closest thing to a cure that you will find.

Many Carpal Tunnel Syndrome sufferers find reliable relief from their painful symptoms, sleep disturbance, and loss of hand functionality using the Carpal Solution and think of it as their carpal tunnel cure.

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Great Question Lisa, there are a lot of funky “home remedies” or “old wives’ tales” that wastes people’s time, their money, and extends their suffering and can even lead to more complications. So, it is important to evaluate any home remedy carefully and see if they pass the “smell test.” There are some simple things you can check out to see if a so called “Home Remedy” is legitimate.

Here is a check list to help you evaluate any Home Remedy:

• Who developed the treatment protocol? Was it a Doctor?
• Is the treatment safe? Are there potential complications?
• Who Provides the Remedy? A Medical Device Company?
• Are there Clinical Studies to Back it up?
• What do other patients say about the treatment’s success or failure?

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Carpal Tunnel Surgery is done under twilight anesthesia. The drugs cause temporary amnesia, so it feels like one has been completely knocked out. Even though general anesthesia is not administered, when the patient awakes they cannot remember any of the events that have taken place during the surgery. Through an incision on the wrist, the carpal ligament is severed to relieve the pressure on the median nerve – Hence, the phrase “Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery”. The incision is sutured closed with the expectation that the ligament tissue will scar back together over several months leaving more space.

Cost of surgery and rehabilitation is in the range of $5,000 to $10,000 with some improvement achieved in over 70% of cases. Full restoration is achieved in less than 60% of surgeries. Downtime and rehabiliation generally range from six weeks to three months, but can take over a year, depending on how many lingering symptoms result and the degree of scar tissue formation as this primary ligament in the hand heals back together. Scar tissue formation during recovery from surgery is unpredictable and sometimes results in less space in this narrow anatomical passage of the wrist after the carpal tunnel surgical procedure, causing even more discomfort and numbness after surgery. This complication is only reported in less than 15% of surgical procedures.

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Patients are often told that success rates are high (over 90%) for Carpal Tunnel Surgery when they visit the surgeon’s office. However, on the other hand, the patients know so many people who have to have Repeat Carpal Tunnel Surgeries or have friends for whom the Surgery did not work at all. Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery is one of the most performed procedures in medicine. Almost everybody knows somebody that has had it. It is one of the quickest and easiest surgeries from a Surgeon’s perspective.

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Surgery is routine for Surgeons and they become accustom to the risks and tend to minimize the risks of surgery when they talk to patients. It is only natural, it is human nature to minimize the risks a person deals with on a daily basis. Airline pilots do it, big mountain skiers do it and so do hand surgeons.

However, there are well documented risks of any surgical procedure. These are divided into two categories Life Threatening Risks and Other Specific Risks of Carpal Tunnel Surgery:

Patients considering this surgery should go into the procedure with their eyes wide open to the potential risks.

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A lot of people believe that because they have insurance it would be a good idea to go ahead and have Carpal Tunnel Surgery, thinking that the surgery represents a permanent fix. Well, first of all, this procedure is not a permanent fix for CTS. It comes back for 85% of people within 6 months to 7 years. Secondly, most health insurance is designed to have co-pays and deductibles, so the patient shares expenses and has “some skin in the game.” Thirdly, Carpal Tunnel Surgery has a low success rate on patient surveys. It comes in at a: 50% -60% success rate. So, you might want to get the facts before you act.

Out-of-pocket expenses for the patient for this surgical procedure average $ 1,200 even for people with solid health insurance. It is important to understand what costs you will incur both out of pocket and personally with any surgical procedure. The process can be complicated and confusing.

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Patients who do their research recognize that they need to try other alternatives before resorting to a surgical procedure to treat their Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. This is because patient surveys show a 50% to 60% success rate and even when Carpal Tunnel Release Surgery is considered successful, it is still likely to come back for 85% of people within seven years. So, undergoing surgery is not a great option. It should be considered as a last resort after other clinically documented treatment regimens have been applied.

The first Carpal Tunnel Treatment Alternative that you should consider is Carpal Solution Therapy. It was developed by Doctors working with patients and has a 97% success rate. Patients say that it is the best medical treatment they have ever tried. It is a natural stretching therapy applied at night during sleep using a unique taping system.

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