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I work as a hair stylist and beautician. A high percentage of people in my profession seem to suffer from Carpal Tunnel Syndrome due to heavy use of our hands and wrists clipping hair, twisting curling irons and rotating hair blowers at different angles to quickly dry hair in doing our styling magic.
When symptoms flared up, numbness and lack of feeling spread through my fingers and pulsating painful electric-like jolts shot through my wrists. I knew it was Carpal Tunnel because many of my friends and colleagues in the hair styling profession have experienced the same devastating effects. I was depressed. I have seen careers ruined and friends lose the use of their hands.
My doctor said I needed to schedule and nerve conductivity study with a neurologist and get ready for surgery, in his opinion this was the only thing that he had seen that could really help chronic CTS.
Several of my friends tried the splints, but they could not work with the splints on, so they had the injections which gave relief for a month or two, but I guess they are steroid based and can only be done once or twice to give you time to adjust your activities with your hands or plan surgery.
My friends that have had surgery either found that after all the rehab and downtime that they still had some lingering symptoms and after eighteen months the symptoms came back just as strong or stronger than before. One friend repeated surgery and was told by the surgeon that he would only perform the second surgery if she changed her career. That stinks!
Another friend found that her symptoms changed after surgery, but the discomfort after surgery was even worse than before she had the surgery, she had to retire from hair styling and is now doing child care in a day care facility and finds she has to be very careful about how much she does each day with her hands and wrists.
After hearing from my friends their tales, I was not going to go down the path to surgery. I love what I do and besides -How many jobs can you do without using your hands, most jobs that I can do outside of hair styling involve using a computer with your hands which can aggravate CTS just as much if not more than hair styling.
So, I started looking for another type of home remedy or therapy I could do myself or from a hand therapist or chiropractor. A friend recommended the Thermoskin Carpal Tunnel Gloves.
So, I ordered the gloves and gave them a try. They were amazing! After just a week my worst symptoms were gone and it did not wake me up at night anymore. Over the full six weeks, I found my symptoms completely disappeared and tended to forget that I ever had trouble with my hands and wrists.
A friend said it was good karma for the year to give something back at New Years. I wanted to tell others about my story since I know there are a lot of people suffering. It is my New Years Gift and one of my resolutions to give back when I have been well treated. I have been well treated by the Thermoskin Carpal Tunnel Gloves.
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