Michelle Hinman's List: Carpal tunnel syndrome

• Definition
• Definition
• including the anatomy of your wris
• certain underlying health problems
• possibly patterns of hand us
• carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway
• ocated on the palm side of your wrist
• to your hand and nine tendons that bend your fingers.
• protects a main nerve
• numbness, pain and, eventually, hand weakness that characterize carpal tunnel syndrome.

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• median nerve controls sensations to the palm side of the thumb and fingers
• allow the fingers and thumb to move
• impulses to some small muscles in the hand
• houses the median nerve and tendons.
• the body's  peripheral nerves are compressed or traumatized
• frequent burning, tingling, or itching numbness in the palm of the hand
• symptoms often first appear in one or both hands during the nigh
• unable to tell between hot and cold by touch.
• factors that increase pressure on the median nerve and tendons  in the carpal tunnel,
• the disorder is due to a congenital predisposition
• rather than a problem with the nerve itself.
• Women are three times more likely than men to develop carpal tunnel
• Carpal tunnel syndrome usually occurs only in adults

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