Office workers beware of mouse hands

  Recently there are several patients with this condition: white-collar workers in the Lujiazui office building, work is to deal with various matters on the computer, the right wrist joint pain and soreness, from time to time there will be finger numbness and lifting bags weakness and other phenomena. This time you have to be careful, remind you have been in the “mouse hand”.  The “mouse hand” is the more popular saying, in fact, is the carpal tunnel syndrome, because the office people use the mouse for a long time after the disease and easy to cause the name, the symptoms are wrist pain, soreness and swelling and other discomfort, from time to time will appear finger numbness, grip strength decline and other phenomena. Use the mouse when your wrist is usually placed on the desktop, which will lead to the wrist of the carpal tunnel pressure will be very large, the carpal tunnel nerves and blood vessels will be under pressure and hand weakness and numbness of the fingers, long use the mouse so that will damage the nerves in the carpal tunnel, so this is why you finger numbness and hand weakness of the reason.  After the “mouse hand” is not too afraid, grasp the correct treatment is the most important, usually we use the mouse when wearing a thick point cheapest kind of wrist brace, so that in order to use the mouse can expand the force area and reduce the pressure of the carpal tunnel, as long as the pressure is lifted, your hand will not be numb and Weakness.  If there is persistent numbness and pain, you will need medical help. Physical therapy such as computerized low and medium frequency therapy in the rehabilitation department can stimulate the wrist joint to help restore nerve function. If severe nerve damage occurs, you will have to seek the help of a surgeon for surgical treatment.