5. How to Alleviate Hand Numbness and Tingling

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all right this video we're gonna talk

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about how to stretch the median nerve or

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if we're getting any kind of numbness

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tingling in the hand and oftentimes this

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lends to folks that have carpal tunnel

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or get hand numbness while being on the

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computer or sleeping in funny positions

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you wake up with hand numbness so we're

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gonna show you a stretch on how to start

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to alleviate some of that so I'm gonna

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have Annie take a seat here

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all right someone have to do is have a

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nice it and she's gonna bring her arm

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in o this position with her hand flat

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like she's serving a tray of food she's

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also going to depress this shoulder

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blade this is gonna open up the space in

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her neck and allow for that neck to

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glide and move a little bit easier so

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what we're gonna do is if I were to

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stretch her out in this position we're

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looking at the nerves that come out of

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the neck come underneath the upper trap

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here which is called our brachial plexus

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run down the front of the arm and in o

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the hand this is the often the kind of

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the main culprit of any kind of carpal

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tunnel syndrome or any numbness tingling

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that settles in the arm the forearm the

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upper arm or even in o the hand so what

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we're gonna do she's in this position

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shoulder blade stays down she's going to

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rotate the hand towards the out extend

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the fingers back and as she's doing that

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she's gonna tilt the head towards and

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then come back so what we're doing is

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again we're gliding that nerve through

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the system so if we had a string that

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went from her ear to her hand we're

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gonna be putting tension on the lower

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part of that string and taking tension

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off the top part of the string at the

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neck and then come back you may feel a

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little numbness tingling or burning

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sensation in the hand and that's okay

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you're gonna take that to about the

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range of motion where I'm not provoking

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any kind of pain but if you're getting a

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little bit of sensation here that's okay

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most folks actually won't feel much of

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anything and again we're gonna perform

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probably 10 to 20 repetitions and we're

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gonna do this at least two or three

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times a day so if you're sitting at your

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desk or at the computer for a long

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period of time this is something you can

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even do maybe even on the hour to help

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keep that neck and the hand stretched

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out so it's an easy stretch to do to

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alleviate some hand numbness and

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tingling or if we're stuck on the

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computer all day inserted to get those

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carpal tunnels

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it's a nice way to start to alleviate

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and prevent those symptoms