What Is A Good Vitamin Supplement For Carpal Tunnel?

January 7, 2003

A good site for explaining what might be going on physically with

carpal tunnel syndrome.

http://danke.com/Orthodoc/carpaltunnel.html

Carpel tunnel syndrome is a hot topic with massage therapists. A

high percentage of them get it or something quite like it.

Their professional journals all suggest massage therapists get massage

(yeah, surprise!), do special exersizes and adjust how they give

massages themselves.

Last March I tripped while at my mundane job and landed on both wrists

palms down (for those here who understand TCM, at Heart Constictor #

7).

Long story short, even after the discoloring went down I was still

experiencing weird " electric " pains in my hands and arms.

I'd managed to make it through 20 years as an " LSM " operator keying

out zip codes at one letter a second and later was used as an

interpreter for Deaf employees with out any problems (both are

occupations that have inspired CTS in many people). I wasn't going to

let this silly tummble ruin my stepping into a career with shiatsu.

Suppliments? I was already on a first name basis at no less than 3

health food stores.

I see a chiropractor regularly.

I gave my wrists some time to heal.

I used magnets on my wrists when I slept.

I burned moxa at various acupuncture points.

I massaged my wrists and exersized them periodically during the day.

I made major adjustments to my yoga routine and did a lot of

listening.

I had a flare up a couple weeks ago after some acupuncture treatments.

I chalk that up to having a healing crisis. It was an energy

rebalancing I needed to go through. The acupunturist didn't do

anything I could not have done myself but his diagnosis was perhaps

more accurate because he wasn't doing it from inside my body. His was

less subjective.

I've come to view landing at HC #7 instead of any other place when I

tripped last March as a chi balance manifesting itself into a

physical. I'm sure this understanding of mine would collect giggles

from a surgion specializing in CTS.

Penel

who wishes she could pay attention without these annoying wake up

calls

July 27, 2003

http://www.orthomed.com/What Is A Good Vitamin Supplement For Carpal Tunnel? This answer in frightening. Physicians in general have been cutting vitamins for so long that they do not know the basic things about nutrients. Vitamin B6 in the form of pyridoxine will help only a small number of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome. These would be the patients who have an absolute deficiency of B6 in their diet, which is rare. This finding was made by John Ellis, M.D., described in Vitamin B6: the Doctor's Report and in The Doctor Who Looked at Hands. His patients where often women who ate a lot of well done beef. B6 is heat volatile. I found that in California, the land of fruits and nuts, that true B6 deficiency in the diet was rare and that the problem is that the patient lacks an enzyme that converts pyridoxine to P5P, pyridoxal 5 phosphate, and then the P5P goes off into the body and does B6 things. Therefore, one should take P5P. This is a basic example how in orthomolecular medicine we often bypass a metabolic block. The other thing is the comment that B6 can be dangerous. Yes, it can cause numbness and tingling, even finally a temporary paralysis but this is really not due to a B6 toxicity; it is an induced deficiency of other B vitamins causing beriberi or pellagra. Anyone in orthomolecular medicine knows that you never give large doses of B6 without moderate doses of the other B vitamins. If non-orthomolecular M.D.s would stop cutting vitamins, they might learn how to use them.