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Originally posted by RyanLanane@May 10 2005, 06:23 AM
O.K. After months of treating as Carpyl Tunnel I went to a "shock doctor" - atleast that's what I call him - at some physical rehab place called IPMR. Anyways he puts gell and positive/negative elctrodes all over my body and hookes up this hand held shocker and through my skin shocks me with it in different areas to make my nerves twitch and my hand and other areas of the body jump as a reaction.
He then poked me with a need I don't know what the hell it did but I got poked about 20 times or so should down to wrist and in my palm ... and did some kind of electric crap too... He was also using measuring tape for some reason.
Anyways, the good news - He tells me I do not have carpyl tunnel. Bad news was if he had to guess it was tendonitis (tennis elbow) which is screwed up cause I don't play tennis, LOL
So this morning I get a call from my doctor (actually her nurse) and she tells me they now want to send me to a damn neurologists for further testing?
What in the hell does my brain have to do with this crap, kind of freaks me the hell out.. Any of you (Grimm I would love to hear from you on this subject) who have ANY idea about this tpe of stuff make a post and let me know.. As I am clueless and sort of worried... Nothing about neurology ws mentioned before and I'll die before I let someone operate on my damn brain - I'm already stupid enough 
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Ryan.. Tennis elbow is just a stretching of the tendon around your ulna, it can also mess with your ulnar nerve, which would create a numbness/tingling, especially in the last two fingers of the hand on the afflicted arm. you can treat it through physical therapy, by strenghtening the arm muscles that run around the joint, so as to take pressure off of the tendon and allow it to heal. the onyl way it will feel better is if the tendon goes back to its normal form and can perform its duties without being overexerted. It is called tennis elbow, because tenis players get it through the repeaated motion , pretty much every arm movement in tennis stresses the area in which the tendon is located, if the proper musculature is not there, then the tendon ends up supporting weight and force, something tendons are not supposed to do, they are connective tissue, not load bearing.
the electronic pads your doctor was using are stim pads, they stimulate specific muscles and groups to see how this effects the pain, and also to time the response. if the doctor can figure out which stabilizing and load bering muscles are not doing there job, a physical therapist can isolate and strengthen the muscle, without using the afflicted tendon. The needles are for the nerves, pretty much a pain/response test to test for any nerve damage. if it hurt, thats a good thing, damaged or unattached nerves dont carry pain signals properly to your brain
Tendonitis is a much better diagnosis than Carpal Tunnel.. its generally not necessary to have it scoped, unless it is torn of course, and it will feel immediately better once the therapy starts, as opposes to Carpal Tunnel, where the immobolization itself would cause your wrist to atrophy to a degree where it would be useless.
upside is you might get some pain killers out of it
