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At last my course is up and running.
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Learn Self-Help Techniques to Reverse your Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other causes of Numb Hands, Numb Fingers, Wrist Pain.
And in the process – you may eliminate your headaches and the pain between your shoulder blades, rounded shoulders and tight forearms.
You do not have to live with Numbness, Tingling, Hands keeping you awake at night.
If you have tingling fingers, numb or hand pain due to your occupation or hobby, it is because one or more major nerves is being pinched in one or more of several places.
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Lots of great information here and I found the videos very interesting. I’ll be trying out the forearm muscle loosening over the next week or so to see if it helps me. Thanks Hilma!
Thanks Kevin. I’m still trying to figure out how to best organize this site.
Hilma, I have had tendonitis in my left wrist for about 18mos. I am told by my orthopedic surgeon on reading my hand MRI that I have no medical condition in my hand or wrist that is causing the pain. He is also confident that my wrist pain is not carpal tunnel. He does not believe there is a surgical solution for the pain in my wrist. The occupational therapist I have seen only works at the source of the pain at my left wrist.
My research of your information and from another therapist on the web, Joshua Tucker, indicates that it is highly likely my wrist pain comes from neck, shoulders, chest and/or forearm. And, almost certainly not from my wrist.
Currently, I am doing a regimin of ice dipping, and wrist strecthes every 10mins for 2hrs a day as recommended by Joshua Tucker. I have been doing this regimin now for 6 days and have exeperience a lessening of pain. I am optimistic about this regimin, but I am also interested in doing other positive things to relieve the pain fully.
My question for you is whether you believe the forearm massages, chest, shoulder and neck stretches would be effective for wrist tendonitis as well as carpal tunnel. I would also be interested in anything you might have to offer that you think would be effective in healing my wrist. On the assumption that your recommendations would be effective for wrist tendonitis as well as carpal tunnel I started doing them today.
Thank you for your thorough descriptions of what causes carpal tunnel as well as the videos that show how to perform the massage and stretches.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Hi Jeff, since you only mention pain and not numbness and that the ice dip and stretching are helping, I am guessing the problem is in the forearm muscles/tendons. So I would start with that first.
Watch my 2 videos on the hand, wrist and forearm. Do the he self-help techniques in the second video – work the entire hand to to top of forearm area thoroughly.
Ice is great. It accelerates your body’s natural healing. I used to ice dip and alternate with hot (not too hot). The probem with that is the fingers can not tollerate the cold. Instead of that I prefer keeping a bottle of water in the refrigerator and just slowly pouring the cold water from wrist to forearm. “Painting” with ice is good too. However, having said that, I seldom use ice, I find my forearm techniques so beneficial and handy.
I also find my hand, wrist and forearm techniques work better than any strretches I’ve tried.
HV
Nice post, thanks
Hi Hilma,
My question is about the pectoralis minor stretches which I know I need since I get numbness in my hands when cycling. The stretch where you stand against the wall, elbows bent about 90 degrees to the side and backs of arms against wall I’ve always found problematic, especially on my right side where none of my forearm can touch the wall(I guess I have no external rotation?) On the left side most of the forearm can touch but the wrist can’t so the hand stays away from the wall a bit. Because of this extreme tightness on the right, I have been having trouble sleeping on the right side since I don’t know what to do with that arm- when the elbow is bent 90 degrees,back of the hand facing the bed, the forearm and wrist lift right off the bed (when mot people would just lie hand over hand on the bed) and there’s a huge pull under my armpit. (latissumus maybe?)At one point I would try to stay there and use this as a stretch for whatever it is under my armpit area that needs to release but I feel now this may be just straining it as I am having a bit of pain in positions like downward dog. So I suspect I need a stretch on the other side of the shoulder too-any suggestions?
Thanks so much, those were great stretches that I haven’t seen before!
First, shoulders are complicated. Often more than one muscle is involved. You never want to force a stretch.
However, my guess is you have a problem with your subscapularis muscle. Try reaching up the middle of your back with your hand. If you can’t do it – subscapularis. Try doing a search for subscapularis stretches or treatment. (also try youtube).
By the way, this is the most common rotator cuff problem.
Thank you for your very helpful stretches. Do you also do leg and back stretches? Could really use some help with tight upper thighs and butt muscles in AM. Try to do stretches upon arising and before bed, but not always successful in averting pain. Take lots of Magnesium just in case that will help. Would sincerely appreciate any hints.
Thanks once again for the great videos and your fantastic personality .
Rosalie
Dear Hilma,
I am 29 years old.Before 4 days I had watched a film for continuous 3 hours lying on the bed by putting the left hand elbow on the bed and resting my hed on my left arm. After that I felt a little bit numbness on my left hand elbow and wrist. Next day one local doctor gave me one oil for self massaging and capsules for 5 days. 3 days have passed and though there is improvement still I feel little bit numbness in my elbow and wrist and it is difficult to move the hands freely while holding objeccts with little bit weight..
Kindly let me know whether the massage would be enough for such numbness and will it take much time to get back to normal condition.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Thanks Rosalie,
For now, I’m not going to be doing any videos on the lower body. There’s so much I want to do , including creating a product on how to reverse carpal tunnel syndrome etc. But other things keep coming up.
Have you tried searching Youtube?
Hello George,
Most people who use their hands for almost anything have tight forearms. Your little incident sent things over the edge. While they will probably get back to where they were before without doing anything, I SUGGEST you do my self-help techniques for forearm, wrist and hands.
As a massage therapist for over 18 years, I know that massage is good for so many things. I also know that the majority of massage therapists are not very effective at treatment.
The techniques I put in the videos are ones I have developed, adapted, modified, etc. for use on my own overworked arms. Now I’m teaching it to others.
Hi Hilma,
Is there any other way I can purchase your system?I want to avoid paypal as I am from India and I had a horrible time last time doing online purchasing thru paypal. Please advise.
Regards,
Sach
Sach, Sorry, I don’t have any other way to collect.
Mid-Febuary I expect to turn this into a Clickbank Product and then you can order through them. Unfortunately the price will be higher then.
dear hilma,im abarber in los angeles.recently im experiencing a littltle numbnesss in my fingers and alittle on my forearm.i also lift wieghts for the past two years seriously.also a littlte pain in wrist,like u said ,my doctor only looked at my wrist!and then mentioned surgery!!!!!!i thought hell no! there has to be a better way! at work i wear a brace that dosent let me rock my wrist and i work comfortly.but the tingleing is still there,at fist i was scared then one day i came across you on utube,and i need help!
Hi, Gabriel. Because the forearm muscles primarily move the wrist and fingers, and because of your occupation and weight lifting, I can about guarantee that your forearms are tight. The forearm muscles that close the fingers (flexor muscles) get used much more than the extensor muscles that open the hand. That creates muscle imbalance – creating nerve pinching. When you lift weights, most people grip the weight with a closed hand. This overuses the flexor muscles of the forearm – even if you are trying to work the biceps or some other muscle group.
Chances are great that if you loosen up the forearm muscles, including the tendons that go through the carpal tunnel, it is likely that you will solve your problem.
But sometimes nerve pinching can come from more than one place.
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dear hilma, its me again gabriel from los angeles,i tried to losen my forearm muscle and feel alittle better,i need more teqniues so im buying ur course because cutting hair is what i do and im scared,people keep telling me my career might be cut short!!and i cant have that happen.if theres anything else please feel free to e mail me,thank you so much!
Thanks Gabriel,
Work with it and if you still have questions let me know. I’ll be out of town until Monday.