The thumb is used in virtually all activities that involve the arm and hand. The thumb muscles, both the short ones in the hand (intrinsic) and the long ones (extrinsic) that control movement from the forearm are an important source of pain. Activities like texting on cell phones with buttons or emailing on Blackberries cause […]
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 flexor muscles are on the fleshy belly side of the forearm and attach to the bony prominence of […]
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) […]
This is a series on the causes of arm and hand pain. There is a checklist for you at the beginning of this series. We all hold our stress in different places depending on our personalities and life situations. I think we all understand from our own experience that negative emotions produce muscle tension. Healing […]
This is a series on the causes of arm and hand pain. There is a checklist for you at the beginning of this series. “Sit up straight!” your mother would correct you. It wasn’t only because you looked bad slumped over, she knew that it was bad for your back, probably because she suffered from […]
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 or just scroll back to read previous entries. Often the cause of arm and hand pain emerges after delving into a person’s past medical history and finding a forgotten injury or surgery. You […]
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 […]