Treatment for a Pinched Nerve in Garden City

Pinched nerve symptoms are due to excess pressure on a nerve. The culprits of this pain are typically muscles, tendons, bone cartilage, or other surrounding tissues. A pinched nerve, however, doesn’t affect just one part of your body. It can apply pressure to your hands/wrist (carpal tunnel syndrome) or compress a nerve root that comes off your spinal cord (cervical radiculopathy). Fortunately, our physical therapy in Garden City has been successful in treating individuals living near Garden City who suffer from a pinched nerve.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) affects your hand/wrist by applying pressure to the median nerve in the base of your palm. Health conditions such as inflammation of your wrist tendons, diabetes, and hormone changes can cause CTS. Regardless if your CTS is severe enough to require surgery, physical therapy is recommended. Prior to beginning physical therapy in Garden City, your physical therapist will ask you to describe all of the symptoms that you are experiencing. They will also educate you on ways to prevent re-injury by teaching you different wrist positions to use or recommending that you take breaks to stretch your hands.

If you pinched a nerve in your neck, it is highly likely that you are suffering from cervical radiculopathy. Cervical radiculopathy occurs when patients experience pain from their neck to their shoulder. People who suffer from this condition report increased neck pain from certain movements or numbness anywhere along the nerve’s pathway. Like CTS, it is recommended to treat your cervical radiculopathy with physical therapy. In addition to giving you strengthening and range of motion exercises for you to do, your physical therapist help you improve your posture so this won’t happen again.

If you are suffering from a pinched nerve and live in the Garden City area, Movement Concepts Physical Therapy can help. We also have two other convenient locations in Rockville Centre and Bayside. Our knowledge and experience have helped our staff treat patients who suffer from a pinched nerve. For more information or to make an appointment, call us at (516) 705-8836. We look forward to working with you!