Did you know you can get carpal tunnel surgery in just 20 to 30 minutes—without anesthesia? You can even drive yourself home ...

The median nerve and the tendons that bend the fingers go through the carpal tunnel, which is a tube of ligament and bones at ...

since it lies in the middle of the forearm and the wrist), to pass from the forearm to the hand. This passageway lies on the carpal bones and is roofed by a strong ligament, the flexor retinaculum.

Repeated hand and wrist movements. They can cause the membranes around the tendons to swell (tenosynovitis). Broken wrist bones, dislocated bones, new bone growth from healing bones, or bone spurs.

“The carpal tunnel is surrounded by bones and ligaments, and when the median nerve is squeezed, it can cause a range of troubling symptoms such as tingling, numbness, and weakness in the hand ...

David Wei, an orthopedic hand surgeon at Orthopedic & Neurosurgery Specialists, says if people do experience pain, it could mean that they have carpal tunnel syndrome, which is a specific type of a ...

“The bones in your wrist create a channel ... support the wrist without cutting off circulation to the hand,” says Dr. Kopiec. A carpal tunnel brace that’s too tight can compress the nerves ...