It happens when the median nerve is compressed in the carpal tunnel, which is a small area in your wrist. The first healthcare professional you should visit is a primary care doctor. In many cases ...

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The tingling, numbness, and pain of peripheral neuropathy generally stem from nerve damage in your hands and feet. The nerve damage—and the symptoms—generally start in your longest nerves, which is ...

A pinched nerve is exactly what it sounds like. A nerve is being pressured by surrounding tissue and thus, loses some circulation. This pressure can be caused by the surrounding muscles, cartilage, or ...

Vagus Nerve Stimulation therapy is a treatment for epilepsy that involves a stimulator (or 'pulse generator') which is connected, inside the body, to the left vagus nerve in the neck. The stimulator ...

Numbness occurs as ongoing compression damages the nerve. As the condition progresses, the numbness may be constant. You experience changes in sensation along the median nerve and in the areas it ...

You may have heard of carpal tunnel syndrome, which is when the median nerve gets compressed in the wrist. This tends to mostly affect the thumb, index finger and middle finger on the palm side.

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Compression of the median nerve within this narrow tunnel leads to symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. The palmar cutaneous branch of the median nerve branches off 5 cm proximal to the carpal ...