End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain without Surgery, Second Edition
NEW REVISED SECOND EDITION 2004, End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery (Sports Touch Publishing, $24.95, paperback), with 198 pages, and 185 illustrations.
Kate Montgomery, a Naturopathic Doctor and certified sports massage therapist, has developed a daily 15-minute program to prevent and treat repetitive strain injury of the arm, wrist and hand. Kate’s method, a definitive system that describes in detail how to rid yourself of most repetitive strain injuries, from carpal tunnel to tendinitis.
Kate has updated and fine-tuned this second edition…with New self-care techniques! New resources! New information to make informed decisions regarding health options for repetitive strain injury! New insights into a child’s "at risk" to develop RSI! And New self-assessment sheets to help you chronicle your road to improved health! You are in the driver seat and in control of the outcome. Montgomery shares her revolutionary 12-step program that eliminates the carpal tunnel pain and tendinitis. She also discusses other repetitive strain injuries of the upper body, how using her program can reduce absenteeism in the workplace, and minimizes high medical bills. End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery, revised second edition, is still the only book of its kind, suggesting a comprehensive self-care program for prevention and relief from the pain associated with repetitive strain syndromes as well as providing ideas for setting up an ergonomically correct work environment.
Montgomery explains that relief from CTS/RSI involves a process, not just a one-time visit to a health practitioner.
This process includes the following steps:
1. Utilizing the Montgomery Method, a daily 15-minute self-care program which is outlined in the book. 2. Incorporating chiropractic and therapeutic bodywork as maintenance programs into your normal healthcare regimen. 3. Instituting a safe work area with ergonomically correct equipment
The Montgomery Method requires no expensive equipment and can be performed anywhere. It will increase mobility and flexibility in your joints, restore energy and strength to the muscles and increase tactile sensitivity of touch. The program is designed to allow you to support and stabilize the muscles and joints of the arm, wrist and hand. More than half a million people a year arrive at doctors’ offices complaining of carpal tunnel syndrome or other related repetitive strain injuries. In the 1990’s, carpal tunnel syndrome became the surgery of the decade. Moving into the 21st century, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the second most common type of surgery, with well over 230,000 procedures performed annually and is the #1 reported medical problem, accounting for about 50% of all work-related injuries. The U.S. Department of Labor has concluded that Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is the "chief occupational hazard…" disabling workers in epidemic proportions. Statistics from 1993 indicate that repetitive strain injuries accounted for $20 billion a year in workers’ compensation claims. Liberty Mutual Insurance workplace safety Index 2003 lists the top ten workplace injuries. In this top ten, #1 is overexertion (12.5 billion a year 27.3%), #3 is bodily reaction (4.7 billion a year 12.6%) and #6 repetitive motion (2.3 Billion a year 5.1%.) Doing repetitive motion can cause overexertion and bodily reaction time to decrease. So the total of these three is 19.5 billion and 45% of the pie. Almost half is attributed and contributes to RSI injuries.
*Women are twice as likely to develop Carpal Tunnel Syndrome as opposed to their male counterparts. While women account for about 45% of all workers, they experience nearly 2/3’s of all work-related repetitive strain injuries.
"…how does a 23% surgical success rate, warrant a $30,000 surgery?"
Still in the Media… In 2004, The season finale of "Everwood," a popular Fox TV sitcom, ended its season with Efrem, a budding pianist just accepted to Juilliard making reference to his hoping he doesn’t develop carpal tunnel syndrome due to intense practicing and playing. (replayed 9/6/04).
July, 2004, Willie Nelson, made news due to not being able to perform at his 4th of July concert due to having Carpal Tunnel Surgery.
Don’t become a statistic! This disorder is not going away and more and more people are becoming affected by this problem each year. The need is even greater to instill effective prevention, treatment and maintenance programs for these upper body syndromes, which, when classed together are appropriately called work-related musculoskeletal disorders. End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery, revised second edition, will be the book that helps you to overcome the pain of these disorders and restore you to a functional and productive life.
…whether you are a office worker, court reporter, a concert pianist, a dental hygienist, a golfer, Olympic Rower (Lisa Schlenker, world record holder), hair stylist, massage therapist, law enforcement officer, Nintendo junkie, fisherman, chef, graphic artist, sculptor, painter, glass blower, work with stained glass, musician, student, or assembly line worker, and the list can go on and on…Everyone has HANDS and they are your most valuable tool…and End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery provides you with the tools to be able to do your job or favorite hobby without pain and without giving up the things you love in life. Life is too short…to be stopped by something that is treatable and preventable.
Get the help you need from End Your Carpal Tunnel Pain Without Surgery.
By: Kate Montgomery, Published 2004-08 by Sports Touch
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Reviews 
It Works Long Term
In 2001, After visiting chat lines and seeing many people who had poor long time success rates with surgery, I tried Kate Montgomery's method. At that time, I had suffered excruciating wrist pain for 4 months. I couldn't rotate my wrist, pick up an item that weighed just a few ounces without severe pain. I was wearing a wrist brace all day long, just to get through the day.
Within a few days, of using Kate's methods, I found immediate relief. The book suggests good, common sense solutions that relieve the pressure on the nerve immediately. For example, I was sleeping with my hand bent at the wrist, sometimes pressed against my face and woke up during the night with a numb hand or with a sharp pain. The book suggests wearing the brace and night and allowing movement during the day.
The exercises she gives help give strength to the muscles that support the wrist and increase flexibility. --- Contrary to what another reader says, this is pretty good science. Almost ten years later, I am still pain free!
I am a dance teacher of adults and occasionally have a student with wrist pain. I always recommend Kate Montgomery's book and program. I have had at least a dozen students come back to me and tell me that this method works.
The price of the book is less than a doctors visit. It is definitely worth a try.
Hope for carpal tunnel sufferers
I had purchased this book several years back, and had to replace my old damaged copy. This book has some wonderful massages, movements, etc. that can improve one's circulation and mobility. I had C.P. in both hands and had been told by a neurologist that not only was mine "the worst case he had ever seen", but that without surgery I would lose the use of my hands. After working with the techniques described in the book, I was able to increase my typing speed from 35 wpm to 67 wpm (I'm a secretary). And as long as I have continued to use the method, it has continued to help. I have passed on the info to many co-workers & family members, who have also found the book exceptionally helpful. When you consider that surgery for this problem is often unsuccessful and painful, it is definitely worth giving the Montgomery method a try.
Get this therapy for Carpal tunnel now.
I live near where Doctor Montegomery practices medicine. My therapist suggested this book when I sought a second and third opinion about getting surgery for Carpal Tunnel pain. This book help me use a method for pain relief, discovered cause was not necessarily my wrist nor hand, and avoided surgery. If you are good at persistance,buy this book, read it, apply it and get relief. Understanding of why the pain and what to do about it is priceless.
SOME NOTES OF CAUTION...
I learned some things from this book. But her exercises surely didn't cause my carpal tunnel to go away as she seems to be claiming. Here is my cautionary note: Do NOT do those massages with your bare hands unless you have big, strong, very flexible hands. My hands are small and, like some others, I have found that using them for anything but the gentlest massage can actually harm them. There are all kinds of helpful massaging devices out there from large to small rolling squishy balls, to a hard roller ball strapped to the hand, and on and on. For trigger points, and I definitely have found that addressing them helps, those devices are also good, but especially it helps to have something like a Theracane which can put more pointed pressure on the "hot" spots.
One thing I wish had been mentioned...One needs to be sure one's thyroid is in top shape. You can't always go by the blood tests either. If the thyroid is out of wack, it affects so much else, commmonly the carpal tunnel. Then the adrenals may also be not functioning so well. Ditto the estrogen, if you are a gal. I found the website called Stop The Thyroid Madness to be a great help toward adressing the underlying condtion of the cts, personally.Helpful Relief
I've suffered with carpal tunnel syndrome for 18 years.
This book sits on my coffee table like a reference book. I find the procedures difficult to do on my own (symptoms affect both hands - when I massage one hand with the other my massaging hand goes numb!) so my husband is trying to do the massages on my shoulders, arms and hands when he can.
It DOES help my carpal tunnel symptoms, although I'm not totally relieved yet. I believe if we were more diligent with the procedures recommended in the book, I would be healed.
It's definitely worth the $$ to learn about ways to help yourself - it sure beats surgery!
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