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Treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome

Carpal tunnel syndrome is a disease caused by pressure on the main carpal nerve and manifests as pain in the wrist and hand areas.

Carpal tunnel syndrome is usually caused by heavy physical work, intensive monotonous wrist bending movements, wrist injuries that cause the wrist to swell. Eventually, you start to feel burning, pain in the wrist and hand area. Although carpal tunnel syndrome usually occurs in mature and elderly people, young people who work intensively with computers are also getting it more and more often.

You should be concerned if:

• You feel tingling in the wrist, forearm or hand;
• You feel numbness, tingling, insensitivity, often burning in your fingers, except for the little one;
• If the pain and numbness of the fingers does not go away, it only gets stronger in the long run, spreads upward and starts to interfere with living a full life;
• Due to the weakness of the hand and wrist, it becomes difficult to hold things, they begin to fall from the hands;
• It becomes difficult to grasp small objects and use them.

At the beginning of the disease, the symptoms are not very noticeable, but in the long run they start to get stronger, and if left untreated, cause difficulties in performing daily activities. If you feel the first symptoms, it is recommended to immediately contact plastic and reconstructive surgery doctors who, after a thorough examination, could prescribe the most suitable treatment.