Biggest problem: Nails at the fingertips
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The worst problem I still have with carpal tunnel, 10 months after surgery, is the feeling of someone PINCHING hard with their nails at the fingertips. This problem is there almost every hour, every day, but comes and goes. So pins and needles or a tingling, NO I wouldn't call it that!
More like nails pinching or if a cat or little dog are biting you at the very end of the fingertips (all fingers except the little finger, especially the three in the middle). All the time.
Tonight I found out a special different NEW nerve gliding exercise. It says 8 repetitions, but after only 2 my problem went away at least temporarily. What happens for some patients after having carpal tunnel syndrome is that the median nerve stops in certain position and doesn't glide.
My concern is now to on a regular basis make the nerve glide correct most/all of the time, and not only now and then. Learn it how to behave sort of.
Question: Can You relate to this, does it remind you of how it feels? Pinching nails or a cat/little dog biting? And what's your experience of nerve gliding exercises?
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Tingling in the thumb and fingers except the little finger may indicate pressure on the median nerve. To do a nerve gliding exercise for the median nerve, hold the affected arm in front of you with your palm facing the floor and make a fist. Bend your wrist down. Bring your wrist back up straight and splay your fingers outward. Rotate your forearm so that your palm faces the ceiling. Grab the base of your thumb with your other hand and gently pull downward on your thumb. Perform a total of eight repetitions." Make sure to just hold on your thumb or if you pull, it hardly can't be called to pull, it's a question of millimeters!!