Carpal Tunnel Syndrome - Don't Lose Sleep Over It
Carpal tunnel syndrome has become one of the leading causes of loss of work worldwide. The intense pain and tingling in hand can leave us crippled. And piling on your misery, the pain worsens at night. You can't work during daytime, and cannot sleep at night. Can it be worse? Yes, if neglected. With time your thumb muscles become weak , and have difficulty in holding onto objects. With time you will notice that your palm becomes flat towards the base of thumb. You basically lose our evolutionary feature, that made us humans superior to our primate ancestors, functions of our thumb. Our thumb is one of the most unique human tool. It helps us in our grip, writing, buttoning up and practically in anything that we can imagine doing with our hands. Our ability to oppose thumb to all fingers helps us in pinching and gripping. Basically our thumb functions in a direction perpendicular to the direction of fingers, which makes our daily life easy. The muscles that drive our thumb are sup