Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, Phalen’s and Tinel’s sign

Do you ever experience tingling or numbness in your fingers and hand?

It could be that you’re suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome in which the median nerve is

affected. So there are two very simple clinical tests that we can do for carpal tunnel syndrome.

The median nerve can be found over here and it passes underneath the transverse carpal ligament

to supply the fingers with innervation. So this is where the problems start. The phalanx maneuver

basically consists of fully flexing the wrist like this and then simply waiting until symptoms appear.

By lightly tapping a little bit more proximally to the transverse carpal ligament we might be able

to affect the median nerve and if the patient suffers from carpal tunnel syndrome he might

experience paresthesia.