#ulnar nerve entrapment

[mpregbts]

Cold presses help my joint inflammation but make the pain worse. Hot presses help my pain but make the joint inflammation worse. #girl

[msbrainspine]

Cubital tunnel syndrome, a disorder where adjacent tissue presses on the nerve inside the inner part of your elbow, can be treated by ulnar nerve release surgery. Less frequently, ulnar nerve entrapment can also occur close to your wrist. To know more visit https://msbrainspine.com/ or call us at (601) 326-5700.

[howdoesone]

How does one locate the ulnar nerve in the arm?

The ulnar nerve is a major nerve in the human arm that provides sensation to the little finger and half of the ring finger. It is also responsible for controlling many of the small muscles in the hand. The nerve runs down the arm and passes through a narrow tunnel at the elbow called the cubital tunnel. It is important to locate the ulnar nerve accurately in order to perform a variety of medical…

[familydocblog]

Ulnar Entrapment Syndrome in US Military-Age Adults

Introduction: Ulnar entrapment syndrome, also known as ulnar nerve entrapment, is a condition that can affect military-age adults, particularly those engaged in repetitive or high-impact activities. This review will provide an overview of ulnar entrapment syndrome, including symptoms, causes, treatments, and recovery expectations. Additionally, we will provide external resources for further…

[caffstrink]

do you have any tips on how to live off as artist professionally?

First of all art isn't always a viable option depending where you live. The only reason ive been able to live off art is because the american dollar is worth 5x more than the brazilian real so even if i didn't get many comms i could still get by with the few i had. and if that wasn't the case I'd pretty much be eating breadcrumbs off the floor like a pigeon.

1. Whore yourself out and draw fanart of every popular or trending thing to gather attention to youe art

2. Learn your platforms: learn how each websites algorithm works, learn what are the best hours to post, etc

3. I cannot stress enough how important it is to find your niche

4. Everyone is fake no one wants to be your friend, other popular artists will start following you the moment your following becomes good enough. They'll start to interact with you too and want to become mutuals in order to share followings/traction. If you can play into that you can get them to share your stuff as well, but honestly don't fall for it bc most of them shittalk other artists on their privs or personal servers and the stress isnt worth it

5. Draw nsfw if possible/if you're comfortable with. People who commission porn pay well and they often have very few options when commissioning stuff bc most artists don't accept porn commissions.

6. Accept being an artist is a hard job that doesn't pay really well. If you're freelancing on comms life's always going to be a tightrope, so i suggest trying to do professional work once in a while so you can at least have the security of a salary. Draw backgrounds, gestures, scenes, studies, and the likes, bc those are what companies will want in your portfolio

7. Depending where you live it's extremely hard to live off as an artist, and being an artist is often means a very difficult struggle with finances. It's a job that requires passion, and more often than not turning art in a job causes creative burnout and complete loss of spark for it. Ask yourself: why do you want to be a professional artist? Isn't it better to keep it as a hobby? Maybe a side gig if you need money? You can still pursue art even if you don't do it to earn money, and it doesn't make you any less of an artist. It's a difficult job, and you need to understand its not going to be viable at all times and sometimes you'll have to throw in the towel and do something else to survive and there's 0 shame in that.

8. Be professional and courteous with your clients. Don't be a doormat, but don't go around ghosting people or being passive aggressive or taking them for granted and never deliver any product. Doing art for money is a JOB. Treat it like such. Inform your clients about delays, or any issues that may come up.

9. Take care of yourself and by that i mean eat decent food, exercise your arms, get 8 hours of sleep and get some sun (or take vitamin D periodically if youre a basement dweller). This isn't some self care uwu shit, it's actual science that your body is a machine and not providing what it needs to function leads to issues, and some of those issues include affecting your mental health, and mental health issues include and are not limited to: anxiety, depression, burnout, loneliness, feeling like your art sucks, feeling unmotivated, feeling like you're a failure, etc. Same with physical: for the love of GOD you DON'T want wrist issues. You dont want carpal or ulnar nerve entrapment. Don't draw 24/7. Don't push yourself either. If youre feeling shitty its time to STOP. Just picture a shitty graphics card trying to run minecraft with 5 shaders and 10 mods at once on fullscreen with 60 fps. Thats you. Youre the graphics card

10. Don't be a bitch, don't get involved with drama. Can't be an internet artist if you get cancelled so don't try to start shit at any point in time. Don't be a shit person.

And from the top of my head thats it, hope you like eating plain bread 🍞

[spell-bloom]

I now have some form of ulnar nerve entrapment in both of my arms. Whenever I upgraded to a PC about a month ago, it started in my left arm. And just a week ago, it is now affecting my right, and dominant hand.

I don't suffer from pain, but i suffer with numbness in my ring and little finger, as well as the part of the hand that has them below.

It goes from either very little numbness that I can bear with, or very intense numbness that prevents me typing or gaming well. There is no pain that goes down my arms, nor any numbness in my arms.

It seems as if the only solution is either surgery or physiotherapy :/

[mothfishing]

if you ever get numbness in your ring/pinky finger at night, i recommend watching to see if you lean on your elbow overly much, or if you tend to sleep with your elbow tucked in tightly. these can irritate the ulnar nerve and over time lead to cubital tunnel syndrome (basically ulnar nerve gets "caught" in your elbow)

doing ulnar nerve glides when you wake up and before bed can help prevent serious entrapment, as well as putting a pillow in the crook of your elbow to keep you from bending it too tightly in your sleep

[sciencetynan]

:) any improvement?

no, but i found a combination of ice and ibuprofen that at least makes the pain manageable for most of the day.

Also found that if i keep my arm at right angles instead of straight that it reduces the spasms. Pretty sure the issue is that my ulnar nerve (which runs through your elbow to your ring/pinky finger) is entrapped/pinched.

[mpregbts]

I think I might make a few posts venting about my carpal & cubital tunnel syndrome on this blog. I will tag it "carpal tunnel" and "cubital tunnel" if you'd like to block it! It's more for me organizing my thoughts than anything else. Anyway, I'll start under the cut.

I have carpal tunnel, but it's pretty minor. My primary issue is cubital tunnel, which is very similar but is in the elbow instead of the wrist.

It started around freshman year of high school, ~5+ years from today, with very minor pain when holding my phone. It felt like my phone was bruising the middle of my forefinger when I typed for too long, and my thumb joints would feel uncomfortable.

About a year later is when I noticed the next escalation. I was having pain when I played my oboe. I talked with my teacher about it after months of ignoring it and she recommended some ways I could shift my hand position. They felt better in the short-term, but because it engaged muscles that were weak, it would hurt more after what I considered extended practice. For me, because I was a sort of unmotivated student, "extended practice" meant anything approaching an hour.

My hands were hurting when I wrote for too long, but that's true of everybody. It's just, the "too long" was getting shorter and shorter, but I wasn't noticing the change.

By junior year, I sort of figured I had carpal tunnel. What clued me in was just how painful it was to play video games or use my phone. And it only got worse from there.

I began regularly complaining to my teacher about how painful it was to play oboe. It got to the point where I could only play for ten minutes at a time. If I was lucky, I could squeeze 30 before my hands would begin shaking under the pain. I stopped being able to take my reeds in and out of my oboe by myself, so I started using my teeth, which my teacher hated. Both of us thought I just wasn't doing it right; I can't possibly be that weak. In retrospect, I can see that my grip strength was failing.

Freshman year of college, I tried to minor in music. That didn't work out, mostly because I found that I wasn't actually that passionate about the oboe. It was also because my professor sort of refused to believe me when I said I had carpal tunnel that was interfering with my play. She explained that many musicians play their entire lives, way more than I do, and they never develop it until they're far older. She said that, as a musician, claiming to have carpal tunnel was extremely serious and career ruining.

I still found oboe fun, though, and wanted to continue it as a hobby. I have never touched it since the performance final for that class. Even though I did like it and had fun with it, I associate it with pain. Where I am now, I can't imagine picking it up and playing a scale. I legitimately don't think I would be able to play it for more than a few minutes, if at all.

My other hobbies include drawing and bullet journaling. I may get into it in another post, but bullet journalling especially was VERY important to my lifestyle. During my first semesters of college, I stopped because my classes were too overwhelming to do either. Yet I found that, when things cooled down, and I tried to pick them back up, I couldn't.

The pain is the obvious issue. Holding the apple pencil is painful, let alone trying to control it on a slippery glass surface. At the same time, with bullet journalling, the friction and resistance of the paper against pen or pencil required too much force for my hands to produce easily.

The less obvious issue is accuracy. I couldn't draw or write with any accuracy without gripping the pen extremely tightly and going very slowly. Nowadays, my hands just sort of... move? God, this is THE thing that frustrates me the most regularly. Trying to fucking type on my phone. First of all, my phone is rather heavy and it HURTS to hold. Not just for a long time, I mean it hurts to hold AT ALL. But more frustratingly, my typing accuracy is horrendous now. I have to type, legitimately, every three words over again, at least once. Imagine that. Imagine every text you send out, having to retype 1/3 of it. AT LEAST. At the end of a bad pain day, it can be as much as every other word or EVERY WORD. I'm serious. It makes me want to cry.

I rely on autocorrect to get me through this issue. Without it, I really don't know what I would have done. I'd probably use voice-to-text exclusively. Autocorrect really doesn't cover that much, though? And it's rather inaccurate and can actually make things worse. I used to pride myself on typing well and using good syntax (I never really cared whether other people did, it was just a personal standard), but. When your phone corrects every single "its" to "it's", regardless of context, even if you had to already retype it 3 times because your thumb kept spasming and hitting the j key, and now you have to retype it AGAIN, and you're just staring at the screen wondering why you even bother. Grammar stops mattering as much.

Yknow, I don't respond to people sometimes. Sometimes my girlfriend texts me and I have a lengthy response I wanna give and I just don't because what's the point. Why would I type out how my day went in detail, bring us closer as partners and share that aspect of myself, when it hurts so goddamn bad. And it takes forever. Because I can't type with any speed or accuracy anymore.

And, okay. I loved to take physical notes. Things stick better in my brain if I physically write them. But that's too painful now. So I do everything on OneNote. Except I'm a fucking engineering major!!! I know all the shortcuts in Office's equation editor, I can type equations FAST, but it's just not feasible to keep up with the professor when lowercase rho is one flick of the wrist for him and 4 keystrokes for me. So now I just focus on getting things typed so I can't even LISTEN to the explanations because I'm 3 slides behind and surely it's online somewhere.

Calculus 1-3 had written exams. We had about an hour fifteen. I always get done with exams rather early & go back and check them thoroughly. I tend to make really stupid mistakes with math and it usually saves me a good 5 points if I check my work, cuz I can be really sloppy. But I found that I was having to take WAY more time every problem simply writing it legibly. I have to go soooo slowly so that my hand doesn't collapse under its own weight. In my head, I was so bored, because I knew the next 4 steps, and I could have been DONE already if I could just write up to a normal speed! I almost never had time to check my work. I worked up to the last five minutes nearly every exam.

In case you're curious, I have been to a hand specialist. My city has an internationally renowned hand clinic that I've seen and they were fantastic, to be sure. For a variety of reasons though, I haven't been able to properly keep up with treatment. To keep it brief, and maybe I'll explain more later, here's the main treatments:

Surgery. This is what I want desperately. However, for cubital tunnel, recovery can be anywhere from two weeks to several months. My major doesn't give me summers off. I do 3 semesters a year with two to four week breaks in between. Sure, I might be able to squeeze in a surgery if I HAPPEN to be able to get a date EXACTLY at the beginning of a break (at a clinic that people TRAVEL HERE to get in with), but what if I need more recovery time. What if I need to pursue physical therapy to get back the ability to write. If I fall behind I'm going to lose my scholarship. So? Okay? Guess I'll just wait until after I've graduated. In slightly less than three years, not counting my masters program.

Steroid shots. I have trauma surrounding needles and now have a phobia that I've gotten under control via therapy. I can get vaccines now without sobbing and all that. According to my dad, who got them for the same condition I did, they were extremely painful and did not help very much. I KNOW that statistically MOST people find them very helpful and it eases symptoms but. I am really scared about triggering my phobia and having to redo therapy for it. If I have a bad experience with needles I don't think I'll be able to do it again without therapy. It'd suck to lose this progress.

Physical therapy. I actually did do this and it worked very well. Between my stretches, exercises, and heat therapy, my symptoms had become...not manageable, but WAY less bad. It really did work. But people who have gone through physical therapy will understand... once my therapist said I was good to stop seeing her because she had taught me everything she could... I just. Didn't keep up with the exercises. They take like 15 minutes and you need to do them 2-3 times a day. It's really not that bad and definitely worth the effort but like... I dunno. It's weird. I just. Can't get myself to stay on top of them at the end of an exhausting day.

Okay, that's all for now. I need to go to bed, and my joints are swollen from typing this lol. If you read this far, thanks for hearing me out!

[hollowslantern]

dj ulnar nerve entrapment getting tingly on the beat

[mcatmemoranda]

Mechanisms of nerve injury – The major mechanisms of upper extremity peripheral nerve injury are compression, transection, ischemia, inflammation, neuronal degeneration, and radiation exposure.

●Diagnostic testing

•Electromyography and nerve conduction studies are useful for identifying and classifying peripheral nerve disorders affecting the upper extremity.

•Magnetic resonance imaging of the cervical spine is useful to identify disc herniation or degeneration and the degree of nerve root compression as well as to exclude the possibility of a mass lesion.

•Neuromuscular ultrasound can be helpful in assessing individual peripheral nerves in patients who present with an unusual upper extremity mononeuropathy.

•Laboratory testing and cerebrospinal fluid analysis are generally reserved for patients with conditions associated with an inflammatory, infectious, or endocrine source.

●Median neuropathies

•Carpal tunnel syndrome is the most common upper extremity mononeuropathy. Typical symptoms include pain or paresthesia in a distribution that includes the median nerve territory, with involvement of the lateral portion of the hand. The symptoms are typically worse at night and characteristically awaken affected individuals from sleep.

•Less common median nerve syndromes include entrapment where the median nerve passes through the pronator teres muscle and injury to the anterior interosseous nerve that branches at the elbow.

●Ulnar neuropathy – Ulnar neuropathy at the elbow is the second most common compression neuropathy affecting the upper extremities. Symptoms include sensory loss and paresthesias over digits 4 and 5 and weakness of the interosseous muscles of the hand in severe cases.

●Radial nerve syndromes – With compression of the radial nerve at the spiral groove, the triceps retains full strength, but there is weakness of the wrist extensors (ie, wrist drop), finger extensors, and brachioradialis. Sensory loss is present over the dorsum of the hand and may extend up the posterior forearm. With posterior interosseous neuropathy, forearm pain and weakness of finger dorsiflexion is typical.

●Proximal neuropathies – Several uncommon proximal focal neuropathies of the upper extremity typically present with pain and sensorimotor impairment. These include suprascapular neuropathy, long thoracic neuropathy, axillary neuropathy, spinal accessory neuropathy, and musculocutaneous neuropathy.

●Brachial plexopathy – The brachial plexus is vulnerable to trauma and may be affected secondarily by disorders involving adjacent structures. Most brachial plexus disorders show a regional involvement rather than involvement of the entire brachial plexus.

●Cervical radiculopathy – Cervical radiculopathy is a common cause of both acute and chronic neck pain. Most radiculopathies arise from nerve root compression due to cervical spondylosis and/or disc herniation. Lower cervical roots, particularly C7, are more frequently affected by compression.

●Other syndromes – Additional uncommon peripheral nerve syndromes affecting the upper extremities include focal amyotrophy, mononeuropathy multiplex, multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN), and zoster radiculoganglionitis.

[yellowgnomeboots]

Watching House. It's entertaining. People (in universe) might criticise House for many things, but I feel his biggest crime is causing those three other doctors in his team to be sitting around not working, it's painful to think about given the real healthcare crisis and doctor shortage.

In tangentially related news I am leaning towards ulnar nerve entrapment as the cause of some of my current nerve related symptoms, but it seems unlikely that I'd have multiple seperate symmetrical nerve issues so that's the biggest issue. I would ideally like to get the test I've been waiting 8 months for but I guess I'll keep guessing instead.

[theheaterishot]

sorry for my absence

Yo! hope I haven’t worried any of you, sorry I’ve been gone for so long. I’ve had a series of misfortune. In November, I got Covid, then immediately after, got bronchitis. I went back to work for a week and then immediately hurt myself. 

I’m still injured but my arm finally feels better enough to type. Still have neck spasm, ulnar nerve entrapment, carpal tunnel. 

I’ve been bored as FUCK. I can’t even play video games, my grip was so weak and it hurt hold a controller or mouse. Before I got hella hurt I was even learning to code ‘cause I was working on LbaMM dating sim. 

Anyways. As much as I wanna get back into drawing, like, immediately, I know that’s how I tend to hurt myself. Sigh. SIGH. 

anyways, hope y’all are doin well. 

I had a wrist brace AND an elbow brace on and I thought I was braced up enough to punch my husband, so i did, and it was not enough. So yes. I am stupid. 

edit: omg i can finally hold chopsticks again yay. 

[scurvyeunuch]

I got a ride to the next town over today to meet with the surgeon who will operate on my arm for Ulnar Nerve Entrapment. The office was over an hour behind in meeting patients.

Ugh..... that was no fun.

I do have a surgery date though for April 6th. It will just be a local block in my arm and will take 15-30 minutes. I'm looking forward to having this done and hopefully will see much improvement in my hand.

On the way home, we stopped at Costco and I picked up hearing aid batteries and a hot dog.  Now, I have a headache and will take a nap.

[appelsiinilight]

And for today's PSA of the day...

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If you voted "yes", uh, I recommend scoping out "ulnar nerve entrapment", 'cause I found out today there's supposed to be muscle there ASDFGHJASDFGHJDFGH

(I do recommend doing your own research, as I did literally discover this myself less than an hour ago, but in short (and with a grain of salt): other symptoms include pain/tingling/loss of sensation in the ring and pinkie fingers, it's slightly less common than carpal tunnel and is most often caused by bending the elbow too much, and the treatment is "try not to bend your elbow too much" asdfghjsdfg)