Carpal tunnel syndrome: numbness and hand pain in pregnancy

At some point during pregnancy, especially during the third trimester, you may feel pain, punctures and numbness in the fingers, especially the middle, middle and middle fingers.

Is called carpal tunnel syndromeand is produced by the compression that causes fluid retention in the wrist joint area, and that narrows the carpal tunnel, a passage of the ligament and bones at the base of the hand. With the narrowing of the tunnel, the nerve and medium tendons are compressed.

This makes you feel pain and tingling in the palm of the hand and fingers. A kind of weakening and a certain loss of sensation in the hands that can extend to the forearm.

How to relieve carpal tunnel syndrome

It is more frequent to occur while you sleep at night and when you wake up so it is best not to sleep on your hands. These are some of the things you can do to relieve it:

  • Sleep with arms raised, supported by pillows, makes liquids run more easily and retain less. Ideally, the arms exceed the height at which our head is. As in this phase of pregnancy it is normal that we can only sleep on my side, I placed a pillow parallel to my body and there the arms roared at ease.

  • Make circular movements with the wrists, which rotate favor circulation. And this, at any time of the day, but especially when we get up that is when the hands are more numb. It will hurt, but after a while we will recover some normalcy.

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  • Also they hand shake movements They release some pressure, and if we get used to making these movements from time to time throughout the day, we will notice the relief.

  • Move your fingers as if we played the piano. A similar option, which comes in handy when we walk, is done with two flexible rubber or foam rubber balls and modeled and squeezed with our hands.

  • During the walks, the good go with your arms up from time to time, opening and closing your hands to favor circulation, even by turning the arms "like a mill", like crossed blades in front of us or on the sides. The balls to press can also be good companions for a walk. We will be a show for those who cross our path, but at this point and one does whatever it takes to feel better.

  • The swimming It is also ideal for not feeling heavy, and will activate the circulation of legs and hands. These, as they rotate with the strokes, will also notice some decompression and relief.

When the discomfort is important, steroid infiltrations are usually made in the carpal tunnel. But most of the time this disease disappears a few weeks after delivery by removing retained fluids.

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