If your ulnar nerve is exposed to undue pressure, you could experience chronic numbness or pain in your arms and hands. Pressure on the ulnar nerve is often the result of Cubital tunnel syndrome. The cubital tunnel is a narrow space near the elbow that the nerve runs through, but if there is too much tissue […]
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The use of our hands plays a critical function in our daily lives. Everything from the sense of touch to lifting objects, our hands are responsible for many of our essential functions. Not being able to use them to their highest capacity represents a significant issue. Compromised hand use is one of the major effects
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Whether playing Stevens Park or Dallas National, golf’s big around here and across Texas. If you play enough, you may have developed a condition colloquially known as “golfer’s elbow.” You can see why people call it that. The clinical term is ulnar nerve entrapment or cubital tunnel syndrome. At Texas Neurosurgery, we can treat golfer’s
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You’ve heard of carpal tunnel syndrome, which affects the nerves running through a narrow passageway in the wrist, the carpal tunnel. But what about cubital tunnel syndrome? Probably never heard of it, huh? This other “syndrome” needs a better publicist, as it can be a serious, painful condition that affects the elbow, arm, and ring
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A pinched nerve is not actually pinched in the classic definition, the not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day definition. It is more of a pinched in the car door, pinched when the drawer closed on your finger kind of thing. A pinched nerve occurs when too much pressure is applied to a nerve by
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Sometimes when we develop numbness or tingling in our hands and fingers, we simply dismiss it — we must have slept wrong and pinched a nerve. But these symptoms could be telling you that the ulnar nerve is becoming constricted as it passes through the elbow. This is cubital tunnel syndrome. At Texas Neurosurgery, we
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