Is there any other wrist conditions that mimic the symptoms of carpal tunnel syn!
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Absolutely. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a very commonly mis-diagnosed condition. It is specifically compression of the median nerve at the wrist, causing numbness, tingling, and possibly weakness over the palmar side of the thumb, index, and middle fingers, and also the lateral half of the ring finger. If your symptoms are anywhere else in your hand, you do not have carpal tunnel syndrome. You may instead have a disorder of one of the other nerves in your hand, or the median nerve could be affected at a different location from the carpal tunnel.
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A lot of the time carpal tunnel symptoms are being caused by problems with the nerve from somewhere else, either in the arm, shoulder or neck. Even with true carpal tunnel syndrome, treating the neck as part of the treatment can help. With true carpal tunnel syndrome the majority of the pain is located at the wrist on the front side. If your pain is located somewhere else in your hand or arm, then odds are it's not true CTS.
Yes, tendinitis.
One day I noticed that my wrist was hurting me really badly and I could hardly move it. I went to the doctor and had x-rays and was told that it was just tendinitis. That was a couple of years ago and I still can't put pressure on it without feeling pain. Sometimes the pain lasts for only one day and others it last for a couple of weeks. I looked it up in the internet and found that it could even last for months. It sometimes gets a little swollen even and I was told there isn't really anything you can do for it. If this is what what you have the best advice is if you have to put pressure on it, like when exercising, just wrap it up. That helps me.
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Pregnancy can also cause those feelings in your hand, when the baby is pressing on a nerve.
If your palm is numb right in the middle (index through 1/2 of your ring finger) then you do not have Carpal Tunnel. There is a little nerve that comes off before the "carpal tunnel" and it would not be affected by that. If your palm is numb there then you may have what is called Pronator Teres Syndrome. A Doctor should be able to tell you vice versa.
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