stopping surgery

Yesterday I was talking to a friend who mentioned that she was told by her physician that she needed to go for surgery because her hand keeps falling asleep while she is driving and she was told it is CTS. My friend drives hours every day because of her job as a sales rep, and I told her that the odds were the only problem was her forearm muscles are tight and putting pressure on the median nerve at her wrist.

Sure enough, just putting pressure on the flexors, at a key point with a common trigger point that presses on the median nerve, caused the tingling to stop immediately. She told me that as she was driving last night, she would press into point each time she came to a red light. She didn't have any problems the rest of the day, so it appears that the only thing wrong was tight flexor muscles and surgery wasn't going to be the answer.