Chiropractors

Had my every-3-week adjustment at the chiropractor this am.  He stretched me out and lined me up, and I asked him how much he knows about carpal tunnel.  Smart girl I am.  He told me quite a lot, and asked me to tell him my pains and other symptoms.

Five minutes, several excruciating stretches and pulls later, and he tells me it’s not carpal tunnel, it’s tendonitis.  Much happier news.  He showed me some different stretches, but the most important part (and most painful) is that I need to spend at least 5 minutes several times a day doing deep muscle massage on my forearm – pretty much breaking down all the scar tissue that has formed in the muscle over the last 2 months.  The reason the pain hasn’t gone away he says is that by not using the muscle much, I’ve let the scar tissue build up more than it should have.  So it will probably take several weeks, maybe as long as several months, to get it back to normal.

But at least it WILL get back to normal, unlike if it were arthritis or carpal tunnel, without invasive surgery and such.  Life is good.