Williamson Forearm Pain due to Computer Keyboarding and Mouse Use Benefit from Chiropractic Care
Computer-related arm pain. Forearm pain. Computers, keyboards, and their mice can cause havoc on arms and necks and wrists at times. If computers and their accessories are an essential part of your life - as they are for so many Williamson chiropractic clients! – forearm pain may be an issue. Chiropractic care at Apple Country Chiropractic can help with diagnosis, relieving treatment and specific exercise recommendations to strengthen and stretch muscle tendons contributing to forearm tendinitis and forearm pain.
FOREARM TENDINITIS
Chronic tendon injuries are common and often linked to occupational issues like a change in activity involving the use of that tendon. Tendons are an intricate combination of flexibility, elasticity, and strength predisposing them to pain and weakness. (1) The hand and its motions involve many muscle tendons that start in the hand or insert into it beyond the hand like external tendons from the forearm. (2) In tendinitis, these muscle tendons may thicken and become painful due to overuse or non-ergonomic equipment or poor form while utilizing them. Strengthening exercises and rest may help relieve the pain. Mainly due to overuse, forearm tendinitis results from inflammation, irritation, redness, and swelling of the tendons in the wrist and elbow. (3) Pain in a single area like in the forearm is frequently not isolated, so weakness in other areas like the shoulder need attention, too. (4) Chiropractic care may benefit other arm pain issues, like radial nerve entrapments and lateral elbow epicondyle pain into the lower arm which increase when using a mouse in computer work. (5) Apple Country Chiropractic will determine what’s causing the pain with a good examination and come up with the treatment plan to address the pain and keep it in check.
EXERCISES TO STRENGTHEN FOREARM MUSCLE TENDONS
Beyond making better ergonomic equipment choices like a keyboard with better ergonomics and/or mouse, forearm muscle exercises can help. Strengthen the tendons with wrist extension and flexion exercises with a light weight of a pound or two. Ball squeeze exercises repeated 15-20 times is helpful, but begin with gentle squeezes and build up to stronger squeezes. Stretching exercises that have you hold your arm out straight, have your palm side face down with the other hand pulling your fingers toward your forearm will help keep these forearm muscle tendons limber. (4) Apple Country Chiropractic will work with you to be sure proper form so that you benefit most from doing them.
CONTACT Apple Country Chiropractic
Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Steven Baroody on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he illustrates the treatment of shoulder and arm pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that includes spinal manipulation, nutrition, and exercise.
Make your Williamson chiropractic appointment today. Apple Country Chiropractic helps many Williamson patients with forearm tendinitis due to computer typing and mouse use.
