This is a series on arm and hand pain causes. If you missed the beginning, go back to the Checklist. Treating arm and hand pain is an important part of my Neuromuscular Therapy practice near Boston. The extensor muscles are located on the back of the forearm (dorsum, like the dorsal fin of a fish) […]
Repetitive stress and Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) are, in my opinion, the most common cause of arm and hand pain. Treatment of these injuries are a specialty in my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. This post is part of a series on the causes of arm and hand pain. If you missed the beginning, go […]
This is a series about the causes of arm and hand pain. If you missed the beginning, go back to the checklist. This is one of the most common perpetuating factors for chronic pain that I treat in my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. Whenever the skeleton is asymmetrical, the muscles are affected. Our bodies […]
This is a series on arm and hand pain causes. If you missed the beginning, go back to the Checklist. Life throws a lot of curve balls at us. After all, life is a school, not a beach. In the process of learning positive things from these events, we are also challenged emotionally. Those stressful […]
This is a series on arm and hand pain causes. If you missed the beginning, go back to the Checklist. There is no event that initiates arm and hand pain from accumulated tension. It’s just the sum total of all the tensions to which the upper extremity is subjected over time. People come into my Neuromuscular Therapy […]
This is a series on arm and hand pain causes. If you missed the beginning, go back to the Checklist. Damage cause by unaccustomed overuse is effectively treated with Neuromuscular Therapy in my Boston area treatment center. A typical scenario for a person who suddenly has arm and hand pain is that a deadline comes due […]
This is the beginning of a series on arm and hand pain which will include thumb pain, hand pain, finger pain, wrist pain, forearm pain and elbow pain. General physiological considerations will be reviewed that affect all of these conditions and syndromes. As a Neuromuscular Therapist practicing in the Metro West Boston area, I have […]
Here are 6 tips for treating your painful thumb and wrist that I teach in my Neuromuscular Therapy center near Boston. There are two basic stretches, three tips for self-applied pressure and one strengthening exercise. Stretch for thumb tendonitis (deQuervains tenosynovitis): Enclose your thumb in your fist and cock your wrist till you feel a […]
At my Neuromuscular Therapy clinic near Boston, treatment in the case of Ruby Q. addressed her chronic upper body tension but focused part of each session on the recent acute thumb and wrist pain that was making it difficult for her to work. In the first treatment, all of the intrinsic and extrinsic muscles were […]
As a Boston area Neuromuscular Therapist, how do I think about thumb and wrist pain? Thumb and wrist pain tends to come from an old injury or from overuse in an occupation, on a computer with a mouse, playing some musical instruments, or from writing, weeding, painting, crafting, or doing needlework that requires a pincer […]