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Many medical sources agree that carpal tunnel syndrome may result from a genetic hitch – a wrist small enough to pinch the medial nerve in the carpal tunnel or from work involving constant jarring like road work with one of those machines that break up concrete. How many of your friends do road work? Come on, get serious. We all know carpal tunnel pain most often results from computer use. Kids who start using a computer mouse at 6 may develop carpal tunnel pain and numbness of the thumb and first three fingers in one or both hands by age 12. Main symptoms (hand pain, swelling, redness, numbness and sometimes burning pain) usually feel worse when talking on the phone (holding up your hands), using a pen or chopsticks, or very late or early in the morning around 5AM when adrenal energy is at a low ebb.

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