re: Ulnar Nerve Entrapment surgery---any of you know anything about this?

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Ulnar Nerve Entrapment

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I had this once. I saw a hand specialist and he set me up with his occupational therapist who gave me about 10 different stretching exercises to stretch the ulnar nerve. All of them were kinda of strange. I was suppose to do them every hour of the day. She stressed the importance of this. This was very aggressive treatment. I had numbness for 7 days already and they were worried about permanent nerve damage. So I set a bunch of alarm clocks on my I-Phone and I did the stretches every hour. I got a massage every other day. It was a 45 minute massage just on my affected hand, wrist, forearm, arm, and shoulder to help with the entraped nerve. I saw the occupational therapist twice a week for more exercises and rehab. In a little over 2 weeks all of my numbness and tingling had disappeared. I was lucky and did not need surgery.


The thing that shocked me the most was the weakness I had in my left arm that I did not even know about. There was a huge difference in my grip strengths for each hand. I was shocked and really embarrassed that I was that weak. But after each visit to the therapist my strength was returning and by the last day my grip strength was almost equal to my dominant arm.