Your hand is talking, but the story may start in your neck. We trace the median nerve’s full journey—from the cervical roots through the scalenes, under the clavicle, beneath the pec minor, past the pronator teres, and finally into the carpal tunnel—to show why wrist tingling and thumb weakness rarely have a single cause. Instead of fixating on one small space, we map every compression site that can create palm and finger symptoms and explain how smart testing pinpoints the real driver. We s...
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Your hand is talking, but the story may start in your neck. We trace the median nerve’s full journey—from the cervical roots through the scalenes, under the clavicle, beneath the pec minor, past the pronator teres, and finally into the carpal tunnel—to show why wrist tingling and thumb weakness rarely have a single cause. Instead of fixating on one small space, we map every compression site that can create palm and finger symptoms and explain how smart testing pinpoints the real driver. We s...
From Neck To Nerve: Understanding Carpal Tunnel And Its Many Hidden Triggers | Ep 110
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From Neck To Nerve: Understanding Carpal Tunnel And Its Many Hidden Triggers | Ep 110
Your hand is talking, but the story may start in your neck. We trace the median nerve’s full journey—from the cervical roots through the scalenes, under the clavicle, beneath the pec minor, past the pronator teres, and finally into the carpal tunnel—to show why wrist tingling and thumb weakness rarely have a single cause. Instead of fixating on one small space, we map every compression site that can create palm and finger symptoms and explain how smart testing pinpoints the real driver. We s...
The Driven Athlete
Your hand is talking, but the story may start in your neck. We trace the median nerve’s full journey—from the cervical roots through the scalenes, under the clavicle, beneath the pec minor, past the pronator teres, and finally into the carpal tunnel—to show why wrist tingling and thumb weakness rarely have a single cause. Instead of fixating on one small space, we map every compression site that can create palm and finger symptoms and explain how smart testing pinpoints the real driver. We s...
