Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Manhattan, New York, NY

Midtown Manhattan, New York City:  Treatment for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and Wrist Pain.

Repetitive stress injuries such as carpal tunnel, in most cases, can be prevented.  In today’s work environment the average individual spend a good part of their day hunched over a keyboard and mouse and like a magnet – their heads are drawn progressively forward towards their monitors.

This type of sustained posture, overtime, will lead to postural distortion and muscle dysfunction.  These changes overtime time lead to repetitive stress which irritates the articulating surfaces and surrounding soft tissues.  Once this occurs often enough an inflammatory process sets in which leads to inflammation and irritation of the nerves that supply the wrist, or the carpal tunnel.

In some cases a double crush syndrome can occur where there are symptoms of carpal tunnel as well as neck pain and perhaps even numbness and tingling in the shoulder or arm.  These types of cases are more complex and require therapy that addresses not only the wrist and hand but also the neck and arm.

Dr. Noam Sadovnik’s private practice in midtown manhattan specializes in non-surgical pain management and rehabiliation using such therapies as chiropractic, physiotherapy and physical therapies as well as cold laser therapy.  Cold laser therapy is a simple in office procedure that has shown to significantly reduce the pain and discomfort associated with carpal tunnel, wrist pain and cervical pain/radiculopathy.

If you think you may have carpal tunnel or symptoms such as the ones described above call our office at 800-617-0314 for a no obligation consultation and learn if you may be a candidate for cold laser therapy.

 

picture of the carpal tunnel of the wrist/hand

Cold Laser Therapy NYC, Low Level Laser Therapy, Manhattan New York City

If you’ve been researching cold, or low level, laser therapy what you’ve probably found is some mixed reviews about it’s efficacy and applications. The main reason for this is that many of the earlier researches were misusing dosages for commonly studied injuries. Basically, researches were using innappropriate dosages and finding that the therapy was ineffecitve, or minimally effective, compared to placebo.

If one takes the time to sort through all the studies and match the dosing to the injuries it would paint quite the opposite picture. If you’d like to learn more about the research being done – and how it supports cold laser therapy for a broad range of injuries and conditions I recommend you check out www.irradia.com as they are the leaders in laser research and applications.

From a clinicians point of view I can tell you that cold laser therapy has been a welcomed addition to our herniated disc treatment program. One of the major components of herniated disc pain, sciatica and the complex of symptoms that accompany this type of spinal injury are a direct result of the inflammatory cascade that arises from ‘leaky’ disc material and the subsequent inflammation of surrounding soft tissues including nerve tissue.

It’s the inflammation of these nerve tissues that creates the debilitating ‘sciatic’ like pain that most people find unbearable. With the addition of the superpulsed 904 probe to our practice we are now able to put the inflammation at bay almost immediately with cold laser therapy.

Since our practice is dedicated to non-surgical and drug-free care this was an integral part of the ‘puzzle’, a missing piece, if you will.

You see anti-inflammatories are the gold standard in medical care because they realize that as long as they reduce the inflammation you will feel better. However, the biggest issue with this approach is that the inflammation didn’t just occur on it’s own – it came from somewhere. Something gave rise to the inflammation in the first place.

To not locate it and correct it is a disservice. Finding the underlying cause of the inflammation *while* addressing the inflammation as well is what we at Midtown Total Health would consider ‘best practices’. If we can treat the inflammation, thus reducing your pain, and at the same time rehabilitate the damaged tissues that are giving rise to the inflammation in the first place your condition will resolve more fully and the chances of a debilitating relapse minimized.

If you’re in pain and would like a thorough, holisitic and non-invasive option for treatment then look no further. Contact us at The Center for Chiropractic & Decompression NYC today.