While exercise is an important part of maintaining your health during your pregnancy, some exercises may worsen your symptoms of carpal tunnel. Exercises that involve tight gripping include holding tightly to the handles of a treadmill, stair climber, or elliptical machine. Consider replacing those exercises with a recumbent bicycle or other activity that does not require tight gripping. Adjust your muscle training workout to include exercises and the use of strength training equipment, such as manipulating weights, that do not put any pressure on your wrists. Either avoid certain exercises or loosen your grip. Be sure you can perform the exercises safely if you choose to continue but without gripping tightly. Focus on exercising the tendons and ligaments in your hand, wrist, and arm, to add strength, reduce swelling in the area, and work towards improving your range of motion. Extend and stretch your wrist. Hold one arm out in front with your wrist bent, fingers pointing upward, and palm facing out. Use the fingers of your other hand to push back on your raised fingers, towards your chest, until you feel tension but not pain. Hold this position for about 20 seconds, then repeat twice on each hand. Do this three times daily. Flex your wrist. Hold one hand in front with palm facing your chest. Use the fingers of the other hand to push along the finger area of the raised hand. Push towards your chest allowing your wrist to bend. Stop when you feel tension, but not pain, and hold the position. Hold the position for about 20 seconds and repeat the stretch twice with each hand. Do this three times daily. Rotate your wrists. Keep your upper arms at your sides and bend your elbows so both hands are extended in front of you, with palms facing each other. Rotate your hands upward focusing on bending at the wrist and not the elbows or shoulders. Rotate upwards 15 times then downward 15 times. Repeat this exercise three times a day. Consider hand massages in addition to the stretching exercises. Work with a physical therapist to learn the best techniques for massage that will relieve the pressure on the nerve. In addition to hand massages, consider getting routine upper back and neck massages. This may help relieve tension in the area and help with your upper body posture. Neck cramps and rolled shoulders may be contributing to the stress and pressure from your upper body muscles, down your arms, and to your wrists and hands. Participate in prenatal yoga or stretching exercise programs designed to strengthen and balance joints in the arms, wrists, hands, and upper body joints like your shoulders. Keep your hands warm to improve blood flow and reduce pain in the wrist area. Applying pressure at specific points may help to relieve some of the discomfort. If you are unable to apply enough pressure yourself, such as in cases where both hands are affected by carpal tunnel, then ask someone to help. Apply pressure at a point referred to as pericardium point 6. To locate this area, relax your arm and hand, and rest your wrist area with the palm facing upward. Measure three finger widths from the point where your wrist naturally bends, measuring up your arm towards your elbow or shoulder. The point is located in a small dip in the skin, central to the flattened arm, and within the tendons, bones, and ligaments in the area. This might be an area where the clasp or buckle of a watch might normally rest. Apply firm pressure to that spot. It may feel as if it is bruised. Hold the pressure for ten seconds then repeat three times. Do the same thing to your other wrist. Repeat this procedure several times each day. While the scientific research in the field of reflexology is somewhat limited, studies find some forms of reflexology to be possibly helpful. Relief of pain is one area that was determined to be possibly effective. This technique may be helpful during the night when you experience carpal tunnel pain. To relieve the pain and discomfort from carpal tunnel symptoms, the reflex target point is on your foot. Use the foot that is on the same side of the body associated with the pain. Locate the point by finding the base of your fourth toe. Imagine a straight line coming back towards your ankle from the toe. You may need to ask someone to help you. The most tender spot is located about 2 cm, or 0.8 inches, from the base of the fourth toe along the straight line and back towards your ankle. Press on the center of the most tender spot as firmly as possible with your thumb. Try to apply constant pressure until the tender feeling subsides. Repeat the pressure applications four to five times. The point you are pressing on should begin to feel less tender. The pain in your wrist should be reduced by applying pressure to this point on your foot. If the symptoms are persistent, severe, and do not improve with other treatment steps, steroid injections into the wrist area may be helpful. This is considered only in extreme cases. Cortisone injections use technology to guide the medication administration directly into the carpal tunnel area. The benefit of the injections often last for several months. In extreme cases, a small surgical procedure may be performed. Exhaust all other treatment options before considering any surgical procedure during your pregnancy.
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One-sentence summary -- Relax your grip. Perform hand exercises. Pamper your hands. Use acupressure techniques. Try reflexology. Consider cortisone injections.

You can either purchase a notebook with scorecards from sports stores, or you can print off scoring sheets from the internet at home. Assign 1 scorecard per team, one for the home team and another for the visiting team. You can find scoring cards online by searching "printable scoring cards" on Google. You can write one name per row, starting with the 1st batter. Fill this out for the "Batter" and "Pitcher" columns. Include other relevant information on your scorecard, like team, umpire, and the date. You can make a separate section at the bottom for bench players, if you'd like. Typically the jersey number is listed first, followed by the players' name, and then the players' position number. In softball, each position is assigned a number in order to keep track with your scorecard. There are other positions that receive alphabetical abbreviations, as well. 1 = Pitcher, 2 = Catcher, 3 = 1st base, 4 = 2nd base, 5 = 3rd base, 6 = Shortstop, 7 = Left field, 8 = Center field, and 9 = Right field. There are also 2 other player positions to abbreviate. Designated Hitter (DH) is the player who only hits for someone who only plays on the field. Pinch hitter (PR) is a player who is substituted to bat for a player in the starting lineup. If the pitcher is hitting, you can include them in your lineup. If not, DH will take your pitcher's spot.
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Use pre-printed softball scoring cards to score your game. Write out the players' names in batting order. Write down each players' jersey number and abbreviated position.