I "got" CTS a few years ago from a crappy computer set up at my old job! :mad: Anyway, its a problem when I ride because my hands go numb. The pain before the numbness and the inability to properly brake and shift is a serious problem.
I vary my position on the bars, bought better gloves, and tried taping my wrists. None of these things seem to help.
Please, Cycling Elders, shower me with advice.
Thanks,
Zeytin

Since you're already taking the general preventative measures, the bike fit advice is to raise the bars. This transfers more weight to your saddle and reduces aerodynamics, so it is a tradeoff. The other thing is to consider some physical therapy or even surgery. Ride with a brace?

I "got" CTS a few years ago from a crappy computer set up at my old job! :mad: Anyway, its a problem when I ride because my hands go numb. The pain before the numbness and the inability to properly brake and shift is a serious problem.
I vary my position on the bars, bought better gloves, and tried taping my wrists. None of these things seem to help.
Please, Cycling Elders, shower me with advice.
Thanks,
Zeytin
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Another thing that's paid dividends for my hand numbness issues is to add weight lifting to your fitness regimen, specifically for your forearms.

Do lightweight reverse curls (holding the bar with your palms facing your feet).

Also, sit on a bench with a light bar across your knees, with your wrists extended just past so you can lower the bar (held in the same position as the curls mentioned above), and then raise it up as far as you can, while keeping your forearms flat on your legs.

Stretch your hands, fingers, and forearms while driving (minding traffic of course while talking on the cell phone, drinking coffee, checking your look in the mirror, and eating a Clif bar). Put your hands together as if you're praying (another possibility) and then bend your hands back and forth like you're trying to restore that hideous Madonna voguing BS back to popularity. With hands still pointed and palms together, rotate them back and forth (towards your sternum and then towards the ground, like you'd be divining for water).

Another neat device to strengthen forearms was a ball gizmo with a gyroscopic thingie inside it. As you'd rotate the device, the gyroscope thingie would pick up speed, increasing the resistance to your forearm.

Lastly, because I don't like to type much on my laptop for hand numbness reasons (the keyboard being way too flat), you might try the old wrist roller. As simple as a broomstick with a rope pinned to the middle and a weight on the other end of the rope, about a foot off the floor when you hold the stick out at arms' length parallel to the floor. Rotate the broomstick in your hands, rolling the weight up as the rope coils around the stick. Lower under resistance. Repeat.

Good luck.

I will try out your suggestions and hope for the best.

Zeytin