All About Vitamins: Vitamin B6 for Treatment of Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

By Kyle J. Norton.

Vitamin B6  may have a profound effect in reduced symptoms of  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, an Iran study suggested

Vitamin B6, also known as pyridoxine, is a water soluble vitamin found abundantly in green peas, yams, broccoli, asparagus and turnip greens,Peanuts, sunflower seeds, cashews and hazelnuts, meat, fish etc., with functions of amino acid, carbohydrate metabolism, brain health, and liver detoxification, etc.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a condition, characterized by numbness, tingling, weakness, or muscle damage in the hand and fingers, as a result of the pressure on the median nerve.

In the study of Forty patients (67 hands) with mild-moderate CTS initially selected and randomly assigned into two groups as follows: 1) Case group with 20 subjects (32 affected hands) receiving vitamin B6 (120 mg/day for 3 months) and splinting. 2) Control group with 19 subjects (35 affected hands) only received splinting, researchers filed the following reports

1. Vitamin B6 treatment group expressed a strong improvement of nocturnal awakening frequency due to pain, daily pain, daily pain frequency, daily pain persistence, hand numbness, hand weakness, hand tingling, severity of nocturnal numbness and tingling, nocturnal awakening frequency owing to hand numbness and tingling, and clumsiness in handling objects. in compared to other groups

2. However, oral administrated vitamin B6 group displayed insignificant result in opening a jam bottle and handling phone in compared to control
3. Vitamin B6 groups also demonstrated an improvement of median nerve sensory latency mean decreased and the median nerve sensory amplitude mean and sensory conduction velocity mean increased.

Dr. Talebi M, the led author said, "vitamin B6 treatment improves clinical symptoms and sensory electrodiagnostic results in CTS patients" and "(it) is recommended for CTS treatment".

Other, in the study of a 42-year-old woman with carpal tunnel syndrome started taking vitamin B6 supplement to relieve her symptoms, researchers indicated that vitamin B6 is often used as a conservative and adjunct therapy for patients with carpal tunnel syndrome, but patients attempted to treat their symptoms with vitamin B6 on their own should be aware that Vitamin B6 at more than 200 mg daily may induce some unpredictable adverse effects.

Dr. Ryan-Harshman M, the led authorsaid, " Vitamin B6 at less than 200 mg daily is not likely to cause any adverse effects, but patients should be monitored for changes in symptoms, particularly when high doses are taken over long periods".

Contrastively, in the Electroencephalogram (EEG) studies to evaluate the role of vitamin B6 as a therapeutic agent in the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome by monitoring both the standard clinical and electrophysiological parameters for entrapment neuropathy at the wrist, researchers disagreed that vitamin B6 may be sued for treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome, as patients in the tested showed no changes occurred during the treatment period. Motor latency, while the most common screening test for carpal tunnel syndrome, was not significantly changed during the course of treatment.

Taking altogether, Vitamin B6  may have a profound effect in reduced symptoms of  Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but large sample size and cohost studies are necessary to prove this validity.

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Sources
(1) Effect of vitamin b6 on clinical symptoms and electrodiagnostic results of patients with carpal tunnel syndrome by Talebi M1, Andalib S, Bakhti S, Ayromlou H, Aghili A, Talebi A.(PubMed)
(2) Carpal tunnel syndrome and vitamin B6 by Ryan-Harshman M1, Aldoori W.(PubMed)


Biography
Kyle J. Norton(Scholar, Master of Nutrients), all right reserved.
Health article writer and researcher; Over 10.000 articles and research papers have been written and published on line, including world wide health, ezine articles, article base, healthblogs, selfgrowth, best before it's news, the karate GB daily, etc.,.
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