Never heard of exercises. Might want to be aware (the neurologist told me) that mine proably got so bad so fast because of thyroid issues I had at the time; apparently they correlate. It's something to ask about and thyroid is cheap to check and easy to fix.
I personally was told in no uncertain terms to wear the braces at least at night if at no other time. I did a fair bit of whining about them as I was a programming major with a drafting class an a toddler. Might want to reverse your current MO and see if it helps. I had surgery 10-12 years ago but I doubt the thinking on this has changed in that time. Dana On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:34:19 -0000, Paul Vernon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been wearing a wrist brace for the last couple of weeks and it does > help a but I have been removing it at night to let my wrist have some R'n'R > from being so restricted.. I figured sleep time was the best time to do > that... > > The specialist was recommending surgery although as my symptoms have only > just appeared and after discussing things I think we'll be trying the > steroid injections before we go to something as invasive as surgery although > they said that surgery is about the only option that has good chances of > success... It just seems that removing a big chunk of carteledge is a bit > drastic although given the amount of pain I have endured this last couple of > weeks, it doesn't seem as drastic as it would have done prior to me having > any symptoms... > > As soon as my symptoms started I went out and replaced my mouse (no need for > a keyboard as I have used ergonomic keyboards for about 10 years) and bought > a couple of mini wrist supports and a moulded ergonimic mouse mat. My > previous mouse of choice was a Cirque Cruisecat and I have used touchpads > like that for the best part of 9 years as my main input device but I figured > that amount of movement in my fingers probably wouldn't help things given my > current situation so I've gone for a traditional (but ergonomic) mouse. > > All these things have helped to relieve things a bit, but it would appear > that total abstenence for an undertermined amount of time is the only > solution. Being a self employed software engineer/consultant however, > abstenence is most certainly not an option. > > As a kid, I used to be ambidextrous and as I grew up, that was effectively > educated out of me but now I'm seriously contemplating switching things > around and giving the right side of my brain some excersise in the old hand > eye co-ordination arena to take some of the workload off of my right hand. > It's just such a weird feeling when your skin on your hand doesn't feel like > your own... > > On a few of the sites I've been on looking at the issues around CTS, there > have been references to excercises to relieve the pain but I haven't come > across any sites telling me what the excercises are. If anyone has ant good > links to that sort of thing then I'd be grateful as I would like to regard > surgery as a final option after I have done some work trying to sort things > out using some of the other alternatives first. > > Thanks > > Paul > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:150524 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
