It's been a week already since I did that pianist impression while taking a bath and my left wrist still bothers me. Jun the scientist says that I may have a condition called the Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
"Carpal whaaat?"
I know, carpal rhymes with scalpel, and the words 'tunnel' and 'syndrome' put together make the whole thing serious.
It is a condition common among concert pianists (at least I have something in common with them) and those in professions that require repetitive movement in the hands, causing the median nerve in the wrist to be compressed when the canal where it passes through decreases in size. Which results in a numbing and burning sensation, or what Jen calls a 'shooting pain'.
Bending the hand 90 degrees is painful, so is lifting heavy objects. The pain and the discomfort have subsided but I can still feel that it's there.
I've been massaging the area everyday and I used all frozen food in my ref already as cold compresses.
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