Carpal Tunnel and Reflexology
By Master Helen Jeanne Whysong
CARPAL TUNNEL PAIN AND REFLEXOLOGY
Do you suffer from pain in your wrist, hands, arms or fingers? Could you describe this pain as “a tingling numbness feeling?”
Does this pain keep you from enjoying the things you need or want to do? It’s most likely you have developed “Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. “
Reflexology is a scientific art based on the premise that there are zones and reflex areas in the feet, hands, body and ears, which correspond to all organs, glands and systems of the body. The physical art of applying specific pressures using thumb, finger, and hand techniques result in physiological changes. Whysong Reflexology™ takes in the whole person, body, mind and spirit. Searching for the core issues to help release this restricting dis-ease.
When treating carpal tunnel with reflexology you work the feet, wrist, back, shoulders and neck area. Clients say they can feel a tingle release and go up there arm or down the arms from the neck.
During 1998, an estimated three of every 10,000 workers lost time from work because of carpal tunnel syndrome. Half of these workers missed more than 10 days of work.
The average lifetime cost of carpal tunnel syndrome, including medical bills and lost time from work, is estimated to be about $30,000 for each injured worker.
Reflexology combined with Asian study could pay an enormous part in discomfort of the wrist area. We have six meridians that run through our wrist. Each meridian has many points of action in it, but the main one is called a source point. This is an area that when touched, reflexed, massaged can adjust the whole meridian. These points are located on the brink of the wrist.
One of these meridians is the lung meridian. The source point Lung 9 the lung meridian is in the radial groove at the wrist fold. This is a good reflex location for wrist conditions, asthma, coughing, chest pain and the emotion of grief connected to the lung meridians. Lungs gather the heavenly chi in the course of the breath. Breathing is the first thing we do when we are born and the last thing we do before we die.
The Lung Meridian travel up from the chest area and along side of the thumb. Pain in the thumb could be a chi disorder, or due to lung involvement or/and due to the paired meridian the large intestine. Or in this area could be that of carpal tunnel and the Ulnar /Median nerve.
Flexibility – Theories
Keep your mind flexible and open to theory. The more theory the more chances at finding core issues to the problem area. Chose prevention before it’s too late.
You too can learn how to apply this technique. You don't have to be a therapist to have an interest in helping yourself, loved ones and your friends. Class available on DVD distance training course that you can view and review until you are comfortable to apply it with the skills to make a difference.
Master Helen Whysong has been a therapist in good standing since 1992, she is the director of Whysong Reflexology a Distance Training Center in Mesa AZ since 2000, author of S.O.A.P. Notes for Clinical Reflexology, One Step Beyond, and more.
This article was posted by Helen Jeanne Whysong
