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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – What Is It Caused By?
Suffering from numbness and tingling in your hand or arm? A dull ache in your wrists? Then you could have a repetitive strain injury. In Dubai, many people get RSI due to the popularity of golf and tennis.
At Anatomy Rehabi Dubai, we treat many Dubai-based clients in the Palm Jumeirah and DIFC areas for sports injuries, providing improved strength, flexibility, and reduced pain.
We’ll take you through below the most common kinds of repetitive strain injury you might have such as carpal tunnel syndrome and tendonitis wrist, symptoms, and treatment options with physiotherapy and other services at our Dubai clinic.
Types Of Repetitive Strain Injury
Repetitive strain injury means damage done to your tendons, muscles, or nerves from repetitive motions, most of the time in places such as your elbows, hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, and knees.
There are two types of repetitive strain injury, type one which has defined syndromes like carpal tunnel syndrome and tendinopathy, and type two which has symptoms that do not fit a syndrome or have signs of inflammation. ¹
RSI tends to cause these most common conditions –
- Carpal tunnel syndrome – Uncomfortable wrist pain can be caused by RSI since it puts extra pressure on the wrist due to swelling, and pressing down on the median nerve.
- Tennis elbow – This happens when the tendons in your wrist are torn, these tendons bend your wrist back away from your palms. It’s often caused by overuse of the elbows.
- Tendinitis wrist – The inflammation of the tendons in between your muscles and bones. Repetitive activities can cause tendinitis, especially in the wrist.
- Trigger finger and thumb – Occurs when the finger’s tendon sheath is irritated. Repeated and forceful use of fingers can cause this.
- Golfers elbow – Pain in the tendons connecting your forearm and elbow, often caused by overusing your wrist and forearm when swinging a golf club, hence the name.
Symptoms Of Repetitive Strain Injury
If you reckon you have a repetitive strain injury, you will likely have these common symptoms below –
- Tightness.
- Dull ache.
- Numbness.
- Tingling.
- Throbbing.
- Pain.
What Are Golfers Elbow Treatment Options?
Most of the time, RSI can go away naturally if you make adjustments to the activity you are doing which caused it in the first place, for example, if you have carpal tunnel syndrome this can be caused by bad posture or an unsupportive chair at your desk.
Some people stop the activity altogether that has caused RSI, but this isn’t always possible if it’s caused by work or a hobby you like such as golf.
For Golfer’s elbow treatment, Anatomy Rehab Dubai will have a team of specialized physiotherapists to help your RSI tendonitis by strengthening the forearm where the pain is located and using massages to promote blood flow.
Treat Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Effectively
Are you struggling with the persistent pain of a repetitive strain injury? At Anatomy Rehab in Palm Jumeirah and DIFC, our expert chiropractors and physiotherapists specialize in treating RSI to prevent long-term damage. We offer personalized treatment plans that may include chiropractic adjustments, dry needling, cold therapy with our Game Ready system, and EPI for tissue repair. Our goal is to reduce pain, restore function, and get you back to your daily activities without discomfort.
Getting Relief For a Repetitive Strain Injury With Anatomy Rehab
No one should have to live with RSI affecting their daily life, left untreated, you could risk permanent damage to your tissues and be unable to perform the same motion with your arm/elbow or hand again without severe pain.
This is why physical therapy intervention by professionals is so important to help speed up your recovery and strengthen your body. At our Dubai clinics, Anatomy Rehab has a variety of services for treating repetitive strain injury.
From using our chiropractor to make adjustments and reduce pain, dry needling to ease muscular pain, using our game-ready system which applies cold therapy to reduce swelling for fast recovery, and EPI system to repair damaged tissues.
We also have dedicated physiotherapists who deal with sports injuries like golfers elbow treatment, making you a personalized plan to fast-track your recovery. Give us a call today or pop into our Dubai physiotherapy clinics to discuss your treatment plan.
