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- From: jschwarz@lonestar.utsa.edu (Jan A. Schwarz)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: HAND NUMBNESS AFTER EXTEN
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.175154.5785@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:51:54 GMT
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- In article <1479.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:
- >CR..I went on a 290 km (180 mi) cycle-camping tour on the weekend, and now,
- >CR..two days later, the ring and pinky fingers on my left hand are still
- >CR..slightly numb and I'm still experiencing weakness in my whole hand.
- >CR..The doctor says it's the same nerve that gets hit when you wack your
- >CR..funny bone, and that the feeling will return in a week to 10 days.
- >CR..But what about the power?
- >
- >The nerve your doctor is referring to is the ulnar nerve. It
- >supplies sensation to the fingers you mention, and powers the
- >muscles that spread those fingers apart and straighten them out.
- >The nerve can be compressed in several places; the most common is
- >at the elbow. Long distance bicycling, however, causes
- >compression at the *wrist*. I don't know enough about sports
- >medicine to say for sure which wrist position causes the most
- >damage, but I suspect it is sustained radial deviation (hand
- >cocked up in direction of thumb).
- >
- >Frequent changes of hand position - avoidance of sustained
- >unusual postures - may prevent this occurring in subsequent
- >trips.
- >
- >I am a neurologist and electromyographer practicing in the NYC
- >area. Nothing in this message should be construed as medical
- >advice or consultation.
- >---
- > . SLMR 2.0 .
- >
-
- My Mother (age 73) has just recently been experiencing numbness and
- pain in her thumb and first two fingers. The pain extends up along
- her arm. I work with a person that has carpel tunnel syndrome and
- my Mother's symptoms are somewhat the same but not really. She says
- that the skin actually hurts. In fact, it is more of a surface thing
- than inside. The doctor has put her in a brace, but the brace hurts
- her skin so much that she can hardly wear it. My Mother is not a
- complainer either, so I know it is really hurting her. I told her
- that she needs to go to a hand specialist.
-
- Any suggestions or opinions here?
-