San Jose 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 San Jose chiropractic clients! – forearm pain may be a problem. Chiropractic care at Chiropractic Solutions can help with diagnosis, relieving treatment and specific recommended exercises to strengthen and stretch muscle tendons causing forearm tendinitis and forearm pain.

FOREARM TENDINITIS

Chronic tendon injuries are common and often linked to occupational issues like a alteration in activity requiring the use of that tendon. Tendons are an intricate combination of flexibility, elasticity, and strength triggering a painful reaction and weakness. (1) The hand and its motions involve many muscle tendons that originate 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 using them. Strengthening exercises and rest may help relieve the pain. Mainly due to overuse, forearm tendinitis stems 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) Chiropractic Solutions will figure out 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 using 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 start with gentle squeezes and expand to stronger squeezes. Stretching exercises where you hold your arm out straight, palm facing down with the other hand drawing your fingers toward your forearm will help keep these forearm muscle tendons limber. (4) Chiropractic Solutions will partner with you to ensure your form is proper so that you benefit most from doing them.

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Listen to this PODCAST with Dr. Steven Baroody on The Back Doctors Podcast with Dr. Michael Johnson as he describes the treatment of shoulder and arm pain with The Cox® Technic System of Spinal Pain Management that includes spinal manipulation, nutrition, and exercise.

Schedule your San Jose chiropractic appointment soon. Chiropractic Solutions helps many San Jose patients with forearm tendinitis due to computer typing and mouse use.