In alleviating sore wrists, sore hands and other recurrent tendonitis and irritated neurology, symptoms often attributed to Repetitive Stress Injury (RSI) and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), we find that the basic cause of many forms of tendonitis are reactive muscle imbalances. The tendon, joint, and nerve injury is secondary.

Reactive muscles are muscles that weaken when another muscle, the reactor, is activated. The weakened muscles can lead to muscle pain, and the overly strong reactor muscles can cause tendon and joint pain. Reactive muscle combinations may be created by sudden injury or by repetitive muscle movements (as found in playing musical instruments, using computer keyboards, etc.).

These problems can usually be corrected very quickly by using our Basic Balance Self-Help exercises. These unique exercises, developed by us from the principles of Touch for Health, are described and taught in our books, classes and lectures.

A GROCERY STORE CHECK-OUT CLERK suffered constant pain in her shoulders and couldn't raise her arms to put pullover sweaters on or off. Muscle testing revealed that going through the movements involved in check-out procedure, sliding packages along the counter with one hand while punching cash register keys with the other, triggered multiple reactive muscle imbalances. Correcting these imbalances, relieved the pain and enabled her to raise her hands over her head. At a follow-up session she said she was still feeling great and was wearing pullover sweaters for the first time in many years.

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A CREATIVE MUSICIAN, who was recording her own compositions using a synthesizer keyboard, was so troubled with pains in her arms and wrists that she was unable to continue her recording sessions. Resting for several days at a time was no help; since whenever she went back to playing the keyboard, the problems would return. She volunteered at a demonstration session. We had her sit down and mimic playing the keyboard and corrected the resulting reactive muscle imbalances. Her pain level was much reduced at the end of the demonstration. She telephoned a couple of days later to tell us she was continuing to do the exercises, was feeling better and better, and had started up her recording sessions again.

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COMPUTER KEYBOARD AND MOUSE STRESS: Although we did experience the onset of wrist, arm, and shoulder pains when we first started heavy computer usage, we found very quickly that our Self-Help Basic Balance muscle balancing exercises quickly eliminated our problems. Today we have no problems despite long hours at the computers and doing lengthy word processing projects. We have shown many other people how to alleviated computer use induced wrist, arm, and shoulder pains as part of our classwork and demonstrations.

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