It is important to seek medical assistance when experiencing persistent symptoms.
During the day, these symptoms may occur more often when participating in activities that bend the wrist (talking on the phone, driving). This is often the case because of hand/wrist position while sleeping. The numbness or pain may be worse at night and may keep patients awake or wake them from sleep. These symptoms are often exaggerated when the wrist is bent forward, since this position increases pressure on the median nerve in the carpal tunnel. Poor sleep quality due to hand tingling and/or numbness.An electric-like shock through the wrist and hand.Burning and tingling in digits 1-4 (thumb, index, middle, ring fingers).The symptoms that are commonly associated with carpal tunnel syndrome result from abnormalities in these functions.
The median nerve in the carpal tunnel supplies sensation to the thumb, index, middle finger and half of the ring finger (digits one through four) and provides motion to four muscles of the hand (the first and second lumbricals, opponens pollicis, abductor pollicis brevis and flexor pollicis brevis).
