physical therapy secrets podcast-Stretch away muscle pain using safe stretches that target the tight muscles causing pain

Is it really carpal tunnel syndrome?

09.01.2016 - By Mary Smithson Hutto MS,RPT,AT,LMTPlay

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  Are you experiencing hand numbness and weakness? These symptoms are often labeled as carpal tunnel syndrome when it may actually be scalene entrapment. Scalene entrapment is when the upper part of the brachial plexus gets impinged by the lateral neck muscle called the scalene.  Stretch out the scalene and chest muscles as well as the forearm extensor and flexor muscles.

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