| In alleviating sore wrists, sore hands and other | | | | computer keyboards, etc.). |
| recurrent tendonitis and irritated neurology, | | | | Muscles play a tug of war with each other. They |
| symptoms often attributed to Repetitive Stress | | | | have to learn to work together and communicate |
| Injury (RSI) and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), | | | | with the brain. |
| we look at the cause not the symptoms. | | | | A Grocery Store Check-out Clerk suffered |
| We find that the basic cause of many forms of | | | | constant pain in her shoulders and couldn't raise |
| CTS, wrist Pain are what we call, Repetitive | | | | her arms to put pullover sweaters on or off. She |
| Muscle Stress, reactive muscle imbalances. That is | | | | also had severe wrist pain. Going through the |
| muscles not working together and communicating | | | | movements involved in a checkout procedure, |
| with the brain. The tendon, joint, and nerve injury | | | | sliding packages along the counter with one hand |
| is secondary. | | | | while punching cash register keys with the other |
| Remember, Muscles pull bones; bones do not pull | | | | triggered multiple reactive muscle imbalances. |
| on muscles. | | | | Correcting these muscle imbalances relieved the |
| The bottom line cause of CTS, Wrist Pain is the | | | | pain and enabled her to raise her hands over her |
| muscles in the forearm get very stressed, tight | | | | head. This also deleted the stress in her wrist. |
| and pulls on the Carpal Tunnel, which eventually | | | | A Creative Musician, who was recording her own |
| collapses. | | | | compositions using a synthesizer keyboard, was |
| The stress on the wrist will begin to irritate and | | | | so troubled with pains in her arms and wrists that |
| injure the tendons and nerves passing through the | | | | she was unable to continue her recording sessions. |
| wrist area, greatly increasing the pain intensity. In | | | | Resting for several days at a time was no help; |
| time the injury may become so intense that you | | | | since whenever she went back to playing the |
| will be unable to use your fingers. | | | | keyboard, the problems would return. |
| What is a Reactive Muscle? | | | | We had her sit down and mimic playing the |
| Reactive muscles are muscles that weaken when | | | | keyboard and corrected the resulting reactive |
| another muscle, the reactor, is activated. The | | | | muscle imbalances. Her pain level was much |
| weakened muscles can lead to muscle pain, and | | | | reduced. |
| the overly strong reactor muscles can cause | | | | She telephoned a couple of days later to tell us |
| tendon and joint pain. | | | | she was feeling better and better, and had |
| Reactive muscle combinations may be created by | | | | started up her recording sessions again. |
| sudden injury or by repetitive muscle movements | | | | Muscles are the missing link to our aches and |
| (as found in playing musical instruments, using | | | | pains. |