Radial Tunnel Syndrome
Are you suffering from long standing pain, numbness or tingling in the hand and arms? It may be symptoms of having Radial Tunnel Syndrome.
Radial tunnel syndrome is caused by pressure on the radial nerve, usually at the elbow.
Radial Tunnel Syndrome causes dull aching pain at the top of the forearm, back of the hand and outside of the elbow. It often causes numbness, tingling and burning pain. One may feel pain like cutting, piercing, stabbing pain or may feel weakness in the muscles of forearm and wrist. This pain worsens when the patient straightens his wrist, shoulder or fingers.
Things which predispose to this problem are:
• Sports or jobs that require a constant wrist twisting motion.
• Poor physical arm and wrist strength and flexibility.
• Lack of adequate warm-up time before playing sports.
• Diabetes.
• Underactive thyroid gland.
• Tumours or ganglion cysts (mass or lump) in the arm that
Cause pressure on the nerve:
• Swelling or fluid in the arm that squeezes the nerve
• Inflammation of the radial nerve
• A hard blow to the forearm
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