Identify nerve in wrist please?!
Question: What is the name of the nerve on the pinky side of your arm? In case that doesn't make sense, hold up your hand and look at your palm and draw a straight line down from your pinky to the corner of your hand, with the little bony protrusion. That's the nerve I mean. The one you can feel. What is this nerve called? (It IS a nerve, isn't it?)
Bonus points for telling me about conditions you can have when this gets injured or strained. This is very important, as I've been resting my hand on a hard surface, and I now have a bit of a callus developed there, and I feel it may be the cause of my recent wrist/arm/hand pain. Please help. Thanks.
Answers: What is the name of the nerve on the pinky side of your arm? In case that doesn't make sense, hold up your hand and look at your palm and draw a straight line down from your pinky to the corner of your hand, with the little bony protrusion. That's the nerve I mean. The one you can feel. What is this nerve called? (It IS a nerve, isn't it?)
Bonus points for telling me about conditions you can have when this gets injured or strained. This is very important, as I've been resting my hand on a hard surface, and I now have a bit of a callus developed there, and I feel it may be the cause of my recent wrist/arm/hand pain. Please help. Thanks.
the nerve is the ulnar nerve. the boy protrusion is the styloid process of the distal ulna. depending on the location of the injury, you can have quite an array of symptoms. ulnar entrapment will cause dysesthesia to the ulnar distribution obviously -- that is to say the pinky and ring fingers.
try chiropractic.
It is the ulnar nerve that runs down that side of the hand. If it gets trapped in something called "cubital tunnel syndrome" near the elbow, it can make your 4th and 5th fingers tingle.
The short answer is the ulnar nerve. This branches into the dorsal and superficial branches. The superficial re-branches again into the medial and lateral digital branches.
As far as your callus it may be pressing on the nerve or it may be depressing the blood supply to the 5th digit causing the loss of sensation and subsequent pain.
Do I get the extra points?