Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
London Acupuncturist Roisin Golding for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate
If you are being driven mad by numbness and tingling over your palm, clumsiness when picking things up, and nights of sleep interrupted by your own ‘dead hands’, you are almost certainly suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome. The offer of having the problem cut away by the skillful slicing through of the transverse carpal ligament – which forms the roof of the tunnel – tempts many who are otherwise surgeon-shy. Some may even grab (if that option were still open to them) at the chance of a total ‘hand-ectomy.’
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