Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Techniques to Eliminate Pain - Treating Tightness in Pectoralis Minor Muscle

How would you feel if you had access to a unique technique to teach to your clients so that they could practice these exercises between consultations and thereby speed up recovery?

And what if this new technique wasn't covered in textbooks or manuals about carpal tunnel syndrome nor in medical school? A technique that is fully effective, is practical and has the potential to give professional massage therapists an "unfair advantage" when it comes to diagnosing, treating and monitoring this condition.

Due to her own need to deal with her own overworked hands Hilma Volk, a licensed massage therapist with over 20 years experience noticed how a rowing team was treating their own numb hands. She further developed, tested and refined techniques that can be easily imparted and are effective in treating not only the fingers and hands but other limbs as well.

A casual remark at a continuing education course sowed the seed for the solution, namely, that tightness in the pectoralis minor muscle can be taken for a false carpal tunnel.

Hilma worked out a technique where she could work on her pectoralis minor muscle, and, with just a few treatments in one day, each treatment about a minute at a time at the most, the pain had gone. She continued over the next few days, a few minutes at a time, and repeating this monthly to keep muscle loose and supple. The beauty of Hilma's technique is that it offers permanent relief from the pain.

From her professional experience Hilma has found that pain in a number of different places in the body can give similar symptoms to true carpal tunnel syndrome. That's why accurate diagnosis is so important. She found that very rarely do people feel pain in the areas that are actually causing the problem. Rather it is necessary to clarify with them where the pain actually exists. And massaging these muscles or areas can indeed be painful so her clients are encouraged to do the massaging (and, of course, repeating it in their own time until the pain clears).

Experience with clients also showed that clients will not always be forthcoming with verbalizing their actual problem because they don't realize it can be cured. This underlines the importance of professional expertise in correct diagnosis, treatment and monitoring between successive consultations.

Relieved with their pain gone clients will see their professional massage therapist as a 'superstar' and with the momentum so generated the professional will be able to take on more clients and further grow his/her business.