Vitamin B6, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Treatment

Recent scientific studies are showing that physician-supervised therapy with Vitamin B6 can help relieve symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. In a 12-year study conducted in Louisville, Kentucky, Morton Kasdan, M.D., found that 68 percent of his 494 carpal tunnel syndrome patients improved while taking vitamin B6 daily.

John Ellis, M.D., a surgeon and family practitioner in Mount Pleasant, Texas, has been using vitamin B6 for many years to treat carpal tunnel syndrome at the Institute for Biomedical research and in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin. Dr Ellis believes that “carpal tunnel syndrome is caused by a deficiency, pure and simple. In high percentage of cases, the patients are deficient in vitamin B6”.

Dr. Ellis says that over the past 26 years, he’s successfully treated hundreds of patients with large doses of vitamin B6 daily and “they’ve had no side effects,” he says.

Vitamin B6 Treatment doesn’t bring about immediate relief, he warns. “You have to be patient.” He says it often takes about 6 weeks until the enzyme changes are sufficient enough that the symptoms gradually begin to subside. “ From 6 weeks to 12 weeks you will really notice a decided difference in your and and fingers”’, he says. “The numbness, tingling, stiffness and pain in your hand subsides.”

Dr. Ellis also says that “a number of people have a recurrence of carpal tunnel syndrome when they stop taking the vitamin.”

Vitamin therapy for carpal tunnel syndrome, however should be used only under the supervision of a physician. Vitamin B6 can be toxic at high levels. The U.S. recommended daily allowance is 2 milligrams.

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