June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
254 pages
6h 37m
English
The tests we performed in the previous section were replicating the basic mechanism that causes wrist pain: compression of the median nerve. The median nerve is a major sensory thoroughfare that runs from your shoulder to your finger tips. Along its journey, the nerve passes through a small canal in your wrist called the carpal tunnel, as shown in Figure 29, The median nerve median nerveimage anatomymedian nerve carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS)anatomy.

When your wrist flexes or pressure is applied to it, the carpal tunnel compresses and squeezes the median nerve. Many factors affect ...
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