Wristy Business: Carpal Tunnel Turmoil

If your fingers suddenly turn numb and tingly, you could be feeling more than a hand thats fallen asleep. You could be experiencing carpal tunnel syndrome, in which pressure on a nerve in your wrist causes numbness and muscle weakness. The carpal tunnel is by nature an anatomically crowded location-a narrow channel on the underside of the wrist with bones on three sides and a ligament on the other. Nine tendons and a single nerve, called…