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

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If I had this problem, especially with the numbness that's continuous and the muscle weakness, I'd get it fixed yesterday.

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I am now, but this kinda pisses me off. My GP was pretty nonchalant about it--said a little PT and dry needling would fix me right up. After reading about it, my instincts told me surgery was inevitable. I asked every PT that worked on me straight up--"Does PT work for this injury?" Most hemmed and hawed and aw-shucksed a "sometimes." Cause I was like, "I don't want to go through all this for months and then still have to have fricking surgery and do it all again."

I finally caught a different due one day and we got to talking and said "hold up, let me check your hand( big area between forefinger and thumb) and check for atrophy." Sure enough, there's a huge invention in my hand when I relax it. I somehow had not noticed it. He stopped the session and told me to find a neurologist. So I did.


I forgot the name of the test (EMG or something). Said the shock should travel down the nerve at at least 50 m/s. My medial and other nerve were 63/64 m/s. My ulnar was 29. He was all "Yep, it's entrapped. Go see an ortho for surgery." A 5 minute visit that could have happened months ago.