This week we are going to discuss a very common and very uncomfortable condition of the elbow that can affect the wrist and hand as well as the arm—the ulnar nerve entrapment of the elbow. Patients ...

Ulnar nerve entrapment is an injury to a nerve that runs through the arm into the fingers on the outside of the hand. It commonly occurs at or near the elbow. While ulnar nerve entrapment is usually ...

The ulnar nerve is a major nerve that runs down through your arm and into your hand. It affects functions like squeezing and grasping things. Injuries to the ulnar nerve can be painful and limiting.

Many patients with ulnar nerve compression at the elbow have been treated by the old method of deep anterior transposition of the nerve under the muscles of the flexor origin. Although this method has ...

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Cubital tunnel syndrome describes when the ulnar nerve, or funny bone, becomes stretched, compressed, or irritated. It may cause a person to experience numbness in the wrist, hand, or fingers.

Nerve gliding exercises for the arm and hand may help decrease pain associated with cubital tunnel syndrome. Exercises may include elbow flexion and wrist extension, head tilt, and more. Share on ...

(UPDATED) Compressing the ulnar artery in addition to standard patent hemostasis significantly lowers the risk of radial artery occlusion after a transradial-access coronary intervention, a new study ...

I am not a doctor. That is one of the few things in life I am most certain about. Nor am I prone to submitting an arm-chair diagnosis when a player in injured. What do I know about medicine? I have ...

Among adults without diabetes, higher BMI is independently associated with increased potential for ulnar nerve entrapment (UNE), with both overweight and obesity being prominent risk factors. Among a ...